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 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

• Welcome!
• Why Nannou?
  • Goals
  • Why Rust?
  • FOSS Licensing
• Getting Started
  • Platform-specific Setup
  • Installing Rust
  • Editor Setup
  • Running Examples
  • Create A Project
  • Updating Nannou and Rust
• Tutorials
• Community Tutorials
• Developer Reference
• API Reference
• Showcases
• Changelog
• Contributors
• Code of Conduct

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_draw		The Draw API for 2D and 3D graphics.
nannou_isf		An Interactive Shader Format pipeline.
nannou_laser		LASER devices, streams and path optimisation.
nannou_midi		Simple MIDI input and output.
nannou_osc		Simple OSC sender and receiver.
nannou_video		Video decoding and playback.
nannou_webcam		Cross-platform webcam capture.
nannou_wgpu		WGPU helpers and extensions.

Links

• Website
• Guide
• Slack / Matrix
• Support nannou!