nightgraph

A creative coding platform in Rust. Provides drawing APIs, a CLI, Native and WASM GUIs, and low-boilerplate artwork creation. Designed initially for @night_generator pen-plotter works, but steadily expanding into a general purpose platform.

Status

This project is in very early active development, and probably shouldn't be used by anyone until it's first release in the near future 💜

With that said, there are a lot of exciting features on the roadmap:

• Scripting language and/or node editor for user created sketches at runtime.
• Keyframes/animations in nightgraph-ui, as well as rendering to various video formats
• Higher order geometric operations: clustering, fracturing, tiling, canvas-iterating operations.
• Forward-porting @night_generator works written in a previous version of this platform (such as Kinect scans).

and many more in this project's issues.

Crates

nightgraphics

A 2D drawing API, with a collection of shapes primitives as well as standard operations on them, and between other shapes, and a canvas to place them on and render from.

nightsketch

An internal crate used by nightgraph-ui and nightgraph-cli to store, expose, and modify sketches (self contained works of art written in nightgraphics).

nightgraph-ui

A GUI written in egui that displays nightsketch sketches, as well as auto-generated controls from their parameters. Runs natively on all Linux/MacOS/Windows, or in any modern web browser via wasm.

nightgraph-cli

A CLI for nightsketch sketches that lists sketches, their parameters, descriptions for both, and allows rendering sketches to SVGs with modified values.

nightsketch_derive

An internal crate that greatly simplifies the act of adding new sketches to nightsketch. Through doc comments, attributes, and object naming, CLI/GUI controls are auto-generated for selection of sketches, setting of parameters, etc.

Credit & Licenses

This project and its contained crates are licensed under the MIT license. Any artwork generated by an existing sketch, such as sketch/src/blossom.rs, is licensed CC BY 4.0. Artwork can be attributed to Kyle Kneitinger ([email protected]), or @night_generator on Instagram.

Jost-500-Medium.otf and Jost-400-Book.otf by indestructible type*, SIL Open Font License

Monofur_Regular.ttf by Tobias Köhler, Custom "Freeware" License

nightgraph-ui derived from emilk/eframe_template