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Perlin Noise in p5.js
A hands-on tutorial on Perlin noise in p5.js, walking through 1D, 2D, and 3D noise with code sketches such as animated c…
Photogrammetry on Commercial Flights
A hobbyist tries to build 3D models of landscapes from airplane window photos, working through the challenges of speed,…
Photographs of Old Japan
A gallery-style essay of 19th century photographs of Japan, with hand-coloured portraits and landscapes paired with cont…
Photography Composition: The Definitive Guide
A huge free tutorial on photographic composition by a landscape photographer, explaining the rules, when to break them,…
Phyllotaxis: An Audio-Reactive LED Display
A maker's tale of building a spiral LED display that dances to music, using the golden-angle patterns found in sunflower…
Pillar Box Blue
A craft and upcycling blog with clear tutorials showing how to repurpose furniture, fabric, and household items into new…
Pixel Art Algorithm: Drawing Smooth Bezier Curves
A programming essay with a live demo on drawing smooth Bezier curves on a pixel grid, from the vector tool of the author…
Pixel Art: Common Mistakes
Spelunky creator Derek Yu takes beginner pixel art and fixes it step by step, showing common mistakes like jaggies, pill…
Pixelblog 41 - Isometric Pixel Art
An illustrated tutorial by pixel artist Raymond Schlitter that walks through drawing isometric pixel art, from basic lin…
Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies
A science illustrator makes the case against pinned dead butterflies as the stock image for insects, with a sharp look a…
Plock: The Wooden Clock That Writes the Time
Meet Plock, a 407-piece hand-carved wooden automaton clock built by art student Suzuki Kango, which picks up styluses an…
Political oppression in Trnka's The Hand
An essay on Jiri Trnka's 1965 puppet film The Hand, in which a potter is bullied by a giant glove into making statues, a…
Polymer Clay Daily
A long-running blog spotlighting inspiring polymer clay jewelry, sculptures, and techniques from artists around the worl…
Poor Man's Polaroid
A DIY instant camera build that uses a thermal receipt printer to print photos on the spot, with photos, parts and the q…
Post-Ritual Space: Berghain
An architectural essay that walks through Berghain, the Berlin techno temple converted from a GDR power plant, examining…
POV Candle
A tiny volumetric display built to mimic a flickering candle with spinning LEDs, with full build details, video demo and…
Prime Knots Wall Poster
A knot theory poster for math teachers plus the algorithm that generates its SVG knot diagrams, with lots of pretty tang…
Procedural Content Generation: L-Systems
A clear walkthrough of L-systems, the rule-rewriting grammars behind procedurally generated plants and fractals, with ex…
Pruned
A landscape architecture and urbanism blog known for speculative essays on infrastructure, terrain, and the strange edge…
Pure Silicon Demo Coding
A deep dive into making a demoscene-style graphics demo on a Tiny Tapeout chip with no CPU and no memory, using just 4k…
Purl Soho
A beloved fiber craft shop's blog offering free sewing, knitting, and crochet patterns with beautifully photographed ste…
Quiver and Fixity
An essay by Jhumpa Lahiri on returning to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure decades later and finding wells, ghosts, and t…
Ray Marching and Signed Distance Functions
An introduction to ray marching and signed distance functions, the technique behind many demoscene effects, explained st…
Ray Marching: Menger Sponge Breakdown
A step-by-step explainer on ray marching, showing how an iterated Menger sponge fractal gets rendered by marching rays t…
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