Painting a Character with Maths

What this video covers

Inigo Quilez live-codes a cartoon character painting entirely from math, using signed distance fields in a Shadertoy shader. He explains each step of building the image from formulas.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN repeatedly calls it a mind-blowing and accessible introduction to SDFs and procedural art from a master explainer.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“This was a mind blowing example of math and art from last year”

“is an amazing demo of their power.”

“Check out his incredible videos! Such as this mind-blowing one...”