Any book on computer graphics would be a good start for the graphics side. I like 3D Computer Graphics by Alan Watt as an introduction and overview http://www.

Any book on computer graphics would be a good start for the graphics side. I like 3D Computer Graphics by Alan Watt as an introduction and overview http://www.amazon.co.uk/3D-Computer-Graphics-Alan-Watt/dp/0201398559/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/3D-Computer-Graphics-Alan-Watt/dp/02... and Real-time Rendering for more advanced subjects http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-time-Rendering-Tomas-Akenine-Moller/dp/1568814240/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-time-Rendering-Tomas-Akenine-Mo... The session from Assembly 'The Basics of Demo Programming' is online and may also be useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcZyAO6K7c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcZyAO6K7c or have a look at The Demo Effects Collection http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/ http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/ But it depends what platform you want to use C-64 An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/ http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/ and http://codebase64.org/doku.php http://codebase64.org/doku.php Processing http://www.processing.org/ http://www.processing.org/ WebGL Browserscene: Creating demos on the Web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLqwXdXjqY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLqwXdXjqY Deconstructing a browserscene demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOjWOA-iPnA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOjWOA-iPnA I have some more bookmarks on pinboard http://pinboard.in/u:z303/t:demoscene/ http://pinboard.in/u:z303/t:demoscene/