nannou-org/nannou

A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

Source code at GitHub https://nannou.cc/

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nannou

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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
this.}

nannou is built on the Bevy game engine. Its crates are exposed as a set of Bevy plugins, so nannou’s familiar sketch/app API and Draw interface can be used on their own or dropped into any Bevy application.

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/`]!(./examples)	A collection of examples demonstrating how to use nannou!
[`generative_design/`]!(./generative_design)	Examples from Generative Gestaltung, ported from p5.js to nannou.
[`nature_of_code/`]!(./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`]!(./nannou)		App, sketching, graphics, windowing and UI.
[`nannou_audio`]!(./nannou_audio)		Audio hosts, devices and streams.
[`nannou_core`]!(./nannou_core)		Just-the-core for headless, embedded and libraries.
[`nannou_draw`]!(./nannou_draw)		The `Draw` API for 2D and 3D graphics.
[`nannou_isf`]!(./nannou_isf)		An Interactive Shader Format pipeline.
[`nannou_laser`]!(./nannou_laser)		LASER devices, streams and path optimisation.
[`nannou_midi`]!(./nannou_midi)		Simple MIDI input and output.
[`nannou_osc`]!(./nannou_osc)		Simple OSC sender and receiver.
[`nannou_video`]!(./nannou_video)		Video decoding and playback.
[`nannou_webcam`]!(./nannou_webcam)		Cross-platform webcam capture.
[`nannou_wgpu`]!(./nannou_wgpu)		WGPU helpers and extensions.