nannou

An open-source creative-coding toolkit for Rust.

nannou is a collection of code aimed at making it easy for artists to express themselves with simple, fast, reliable, portable code. Whether working on a 12-month installation or a 5 minute sketch, this framework aims to give artists easy access to the tools they need.

The project was started out of a desire for a creative coding framework inspired by Processing, OpenFrameworks and Cinder, but for Rust. ^{Named after
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A Quick Note

It is still early days and there is a lot of work to be done. Feel free to help out!

The Guide

Examples

The following collection of examples are a great way to get familiar with nannou.

Directory	Description
`examples/`	A collection of examples demonstrating how to use nannou!
`generative_design/`	Examples from Generative Gestaltung, ported from p5.js to nannou.
`nature_of_code/`	Examples from Nature of Code, ported from Processing to nannou.

If you spot an example that interests you, you may run it with the following:

cargo run --release --example <example_name>

where <example_name> is the example's file name without the .rs. Note that the first run might take a while in order to build nannou first, but consecutive runs should be much quicker.

Libraries

The following nannou libraries are included within this repository.

Library	Links	Description
`nannou`		App, sketching, graphics, windowing and UI.
`nannou_audio`		Audio hosts, devices and streams.
`nannou_core`		Just-the-core for headless, embedded and libraries.
`nannou_egui`		For creating egui UIs in nannou apps.
`nannou_isf`		An Interactive Shader Format pipeline.
`nannou_laser`		LASER devices, streams and path optimisation.
`nannou_mesh`		API for composing meshes from channels.
`nannou_osc`		Simple OSC sender and receiver.
`nannou_wgpu`		WGPU helpers and extensions.