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nannou

A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

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What it is

A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2018-06-25 21:02:46 UTC to 2026-01-30 12:37:38 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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pas·Mar 5, 2023
"creative coding" usually refers to a framework where a developer/artist can code up nice things quickly for example https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/blob/master/examples/dr... gives this funky rainbow sine wave (which seems to change as the user moves the mouse): https://camo.githubusercontent.com/edb74faf7b0d79c9e1918335e... this seems to focus on iterative visuals (basically it's a rendering loop), there are a few music oriented frameworks too
In Nannou – An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust
longstation·May 18, 2021
Saved in my note, much appreciated. Yes, I agree building a UI library from scratch is hard and probably not worthy doing (too many people tried and gave up in the middle; probably better to channel that enthusiasm on improving existing ones). I should state that more clearly. I was looking at something more modest, like a canvas implementation based on wgpu that enables others to build their UI libraries on top. I guess it would be something like Skia, but it also sounds like a tremendous effort, and I could probably just use Skia instead. However, I guess I am not going to match what Skia has (maybe what HTML canvas has is enough?). Also, I have played with skia-safe crate but I personally feel the dev experience could be better (not to blame skia-safe, it's wonderful and even provides a build process that automatically downloads a prec
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ompiled skia library). Thanks for pointing out Iced. I didn't know they are using wgpu under the hood. I will take a good look at their code. I have been reading nannou's code to learn how to work with wgpu. If we skip my last paragraph, I think building a UI library on top of nannou is pretty doable. [1]: https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou
In First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
MacTuitui·Dec 9, 2020
I was wondering why the sudden spike in followers... I'm also on https://twitter.com/MacTuitui if you prefer. As for the direct points (note that I am _not_ part of nannou's team, just one _heavy_ user): 1. That's sadly true, it's been a long time issue (not only nannou's problem to be fair, it's shared by all rust projects at the moment): https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/issues/178 2. If you were following my talk at GitHub universe yesterday where I was livecoding (archive will be up "soon"), the rebuilds are fast enough I don't really care (simple stuff are <3s for me, even my latest dailies where I have heaps of extra stuff are averaging <6s rebuild time). The compiler (via lsp) catches most bugs beforehand, so I would say it is not very much an issue at this point. Using a cargo cache will make things far easier as well. 3. Exact
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ly why I started using nannou (coming from using processing via scala)! As for the "why nannou?", and sorry for being nerdy, but nannou is the only framework I know of that does color right: you are working "naturally" in LinSrgb with float16 precision per channel (if that does not speak to you, just look for gamma correction and go down the rabbit hole). The blending of color is exceptional if you're into that sort of things (I am: see for example in HQ https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/road-to-nowhere-12621 ) Nannou is also focused towards the future: there's been a couple of major backend rewrites from opengl to vulkan then webgpu (without any issues for the end-user if you were using the core nannou api functions): you get to play with the latest toys and finally you get access to your whole GPU. No need to stay in a OpenGL-centric state based workflow (that does not make any sense since years)! I've been able to run crazy compute shaders passes while making my own render pipelines _on top of what nannou does_. It's crazy powerful. Also I have to say the team behind nannou has been wonderful in dealing with my requests over the last two years, and they always provided help when I needed (to be honest, I chose nannou because the team was in Australia, and as I am in Japan, it made communication easy). Huge thanks to them. Have a look at the github issues to see how nice the team is. And with cargo, I'm confident (not very confident, mind you, but optimistically confident) that I'll be able to get the thing building again in a few years. So if your interest peaked a bit, please try it, if you have any questions, join the matrix chat and ask away!
In Nannou – A Creative Coding Framework for Rust
mitchmindtree·Jun 25, 2018
Josh (fellow founder) and I have been hacking on this over the past year and working on the foundational crates for much longer! As lovers of the bullet-proof Rust vest and creative coding frameworks like OpenFrameworks and Processing we felt it was about time to merge the benefits of the two while attempting to apply some of the lessons learned by these predecessors. While the library is certainly still in its youth we have been using it with great success in our recent commercial work and feel it is finally time to share it with fellow hackers and artists who might like to have a play or perhaps even join the project! I'll be around to answer any questions for the next hour or two and then will try to make it back on tomorrow before we give the presentation at Protopixel in Barcelona. I'd like to apologise in advance for the lack of HTT
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PS - the site is still fresh and we are in the process of getting it working ASAP. If you would like to skip the announcement post and jump straight to the git repo see here[1]. If you are more curious about the API and would like to jump to the Rust reference, see here[2]. Happy creating! [1]: https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou [2]: https://docs.rs/nannou
In Nannou – An Open Source Creative Coding Framework in Rust

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