Sebastian Lague Courses

Coding Adventure: Ray Tracing

Explore custom ray tracing renderer creation using C# and HLSL in Unity, covering key concepts like cameras, shaders, reflections, and advanced rendering techniques.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Visualizing Data with 7-Segment Displays

Explore data visualization using 7-segment displays, covering binary-to-decimal conversion, Boolean algebra, and the double dabble algorithm for efficient number representation in digital systems.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Create a Neural Network and Train It to Identify Doodles

Comprehensive guide to building and training neural networks from scratch, covering key concepts and practical implementation for image recognition tasks.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure: Simulating Fluids

Explore particle-based fluid simulation techniques, from basic physics to advanced concepts like smoothed particles, density calculation, and pressure forces, with practical coding examples and optimizations.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure: Software Rasterizer

Dive into the fundamentals of 3D rendering by building a software rasterizer from scratch, exploring concepts from triangle math to perspective projection, texturing, lighting, and optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Creating 256 Bytes of RAM in a Simulation

Dive into the process of building 256 bytes of RAM in a digital logic simulation, exploring memory cells, decoders, and both asynchronous and synchronous RAM implementations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chess Programming Tournament Results and Analysis

Explore the fascinating world of chess programming as Sebastian Lague hosts a tournament, showcasing innovative bots, creative coding techniques, and thrilling matches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure - Making a Stronger Chess Engine

Explore techniques to enhance a chess engine, including move selection, search extensions, bitboards, and optimization, culminating in the creation of a Lichess bot and performance analysis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Optimizing a Ray Tracer by Building a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH)

Optimize ray tracing performance by building a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH). Learn techniques like GPU-friendly data structures, iterative traversal, and surface area heuristics to render complex scenes efficiently.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure: Sound and the Fourier Transform

Explore sound and the Fourier Transform through coding experiments, learning to break down signals into component frequencies and implementing the Discrete Fourier Transform.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Planetary Fluid Simulation with Orbital Dynamics and Tidal Forces

Explore fluid simulation dynamics on a planetary scale, examining gravitational effects, tidal forces, and orbital mechanics through practical demonstrations and terraforming experiments.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

I Made a Game in 4 Days for the GMTK Jam

Discover the complete game development process as Sebastian Lague creates a puzzle game in just 4 days for the GMTK jam, from initial concept to final playthrough.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

I Tried Ray-Tracing Glass and Rainbows

Explore ray-tracing techniques to render realistic glass materials, caustics, and rainbow effects through hands-on coding demonstrations and visual experiments.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure - Simulating Smoke

Dive into grid-based fluid simulation programming to create realistic smoke effects using Navier-Stokes equations, pressure solving, and advanced rendering techniques.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Coding Adventure - Analyzing Audio with Short-Time Fourier Transform

Dive into audio analysis using the Short-Time Fourier Transform to create spectrograms, manipulate sound frequencies, and even hide secret messages in audio through hands-on coding experiments.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video