canvas-sketch VS rbush

I believe mattdesl/canvas-sketch has some tools to help export a p5 sketch as svg. I haven't used it for that purpose yet but if I was going to try it, this is where I would start.

I know people have gotten p5 to run in canvas-sketch and that canvas-sketch has the capability to output svg

The basics: I generated this plot via a program I wrote. That program was written in Javascript, using the p5.js library for drawing lines and stuff, and canvas-sketch to generate the SVG for plotting. I passed the SVG through vpype to merge & sort the lines, and then connected to the AxiDraw using saxi. Not knowing where you're at, those are a good choice to get started—Javascript is an okay language, and p5.js is really good for just getting stuff appearing on the page. And you can just start with the first 2, and add vpype and saxi later.

Yep! Using it wrapped with Matt DesLauriers' canvas-sketch, which I've found really useful for local development, especially exporting.

With canvas-sketch[1] you hit a keystroke when you see a generation you like, and it runs git commit, captures a print resolution output, and exports it as a file tagged with git hash and optional PRNG seed suffix. This way you can reproduce exactly a generative artwork from years ago, without the hassle of manual git/shell commands, and with any file/image viewer.

[1] - https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch/blob/master/docs/e...

Another way to get svgs out of p5js is to use canvas-sketch (https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch) but i have been having a few other issues with that and haven't integrated it into my workflow yet.

If you want to get your hands dirty, I'd recommend canvas-sketch by MattDesl. It's a nice all-in-one package for a sort of 'visual REPL'.

Previously, I used canvas-sketch which is also really nice.

Made with canvas-sketch (highly recommended - it makes exporting GIFs a piece of cake)

There's a great library call rbush written by mourner which suits our purpose perfectly! Please do give a star to the repository if you like!

There's been 2 downsides with this approach, though. First is that I haven't found any good Javascript libraries for geometry—there are bits and pieces, but nothing good for questions like "what are the intersection points of these 2 circles". So I've been slowly cobbling together my own, and it's working okay. I'm still hoping that there's one out there, and I either haven't found it, or haven't realized it meets my needs. On the plus side, there are a *lot* of JS libraries for different data structures that are helpful—for instance, I used rbush to really speed up finding line intersections on the full graph of what I plotted. I'll use that to find polygons, and the long lines that snake across the whole image.