Scratchapixel
Shares rank 14 of 24 online tutorials by recommenders
People recommend it as a free online resource for learning computer graphics, especially 3D rasterization and projection, and say it is good for beginners.
People recommend it as a free online resource for learning computer graphics, especially 3D rasterization and projection, and say it is good for beginners.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful overall graphics learning resource
“The best modern beginner friendly resource I am aware of is Scratchapixel”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?” “The most useful resources I've found for graphics are scratchapixel”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 in “What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer” “i tried scratchapixel before and its nice”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free” Teaches 3D rasterization and projection
“For 3d rasterization Scratchapixel is good”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)” “it taught me the basics of 3d projection”
Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer”
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The four most recommended other online tutorials, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| CSS-Tricks | 23 | 3 | 88% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Beej's Guide to Network Programmingby Brian Hall | 16 | 1 | 94% | 7 | 23 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Learn OpenGL | 15 | 3 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
| Let's Build a Compilerby Jack Crenshaw | 12 | 1 | 92% | 5 | — | Approved |
| ScratchapixelThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The best modern beginner friendly resource I am aware of is Scratchapixel”
“The most useful resources I've found for graphics are scratchapixel”
“it taught me the basics of 3d projection”
“Some others along the same lines:”
“i tried scratchapixel before and its nice”
“For 3d rasterization Scratchapixel is good”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.