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I've been having fun making generative art for a few years and recently got the itch to write my own JS library for sketching SVGs.

This library is heavily inspired by OPENRNDR [1], which to date has been my framework of choice.

My motivation to write a JS library for SVGs came from a desire to bring the programming style I love from OPENRNDR into a language I use every day. I was also motivated to generate simple SVGs that I understood deeply because I'd like to start using a plotter soon to bring these sketches into the physical world.

The library is pretty bare-bones, but I did my best to document it thoroughly enough that a beginner could install it and draw their first sketch in as little time as possible. All the documentation, including an FAQ, is hosted in the project Wiki [2]. And yes, I do recommend p5.js for most users/beginners, but I still believe this library fills a niche.

Happy to answer any questions, or field any criticisms/notes.

[1] https://openrndr.org/

I am primarily using the openrndr framework to do all of this.

Last year I wrote Kosmik, a Twitter bot for pixelized retro-style space images in Scala, but I was dissatisfied for several reasons, performance being one, so I migrated the code to Kotlin using openrndr as graphics API recently, and moved the bot to Mastodon. What do you think?

Is there a framework, library or package along the lines of Processing or OPENRNDR for Common-Lisp or Clojure etc.?

I’d also be interested in peoples replies. I know there is a creative coding framework built on it (haven’t used it though) https://openrndr.org/ .

Kotlin is very similar to Swift. OpenRNDR is a coding framework written it it. Kotlin has many of the features you speak of. Kotlin supports many of the features you ask about (or at least something similar to it).

Also have you checked out https://openrndr.org/

After trying to use Processing with Kotlin I discovered OPENRNDR. This is a new-ish creative coding framework created in Kotlin and it runs on the JVM. I'd say the performance is somewhere around what's typical of Processing (so pretty good), it also supports shader programming if you want to squeeze more out of it.

The Coding Train is Shiffman's site that includes his YouTube tutorials and specific challenges.

Best youtube series here: https://thecodingtrain.com/

Git hub page on the specific subject of the person in the video I mentioned: https://github.com/CodingTrain/website/tree/main/CodingChallenges/CC_010_Maze_DFS/P5

https://thecodingtrain.com videos - Explains many concepts used for drawing with code.

Check out https://thecodingtrain.com

If I recall correctly, I tried to get into generative art 3 times. The first two times failed because I couldn't figure out where to start. The third time, in which I went from total noob to whatever I am now, I succeeded because I figured out where to start: by following Daniel Shiffman/Coding Train's 'Nature of Code', in its various forms: the online class at Kadenze, the book The Nature of Code, which you can buy or read for free, and the tutorials on YT: The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems, an 83-video playlist using Processing, and The Nature of Code 2, 43 videos covering the same topics using p5.js. (I found them both useful, nowadays using whatever language is best suited for each specific project.) Daniel has been posting new tutorials, Coding Challenges, and livestreams on YT at least once a week for the past 6 years... many of the things I wanted to learn after the Nature of Code were already covered in his other videos. Daniel's Coding Train site also hosts his videos, often with additional useful materials. All of his resources have links to source code.

Then I found that many of the other things I wanted to learn had already been covered in Daniel/Coding Train's other videos, Coding Challenges, and livestreams... he's published a new video at least once a week for 6 years now, an invaluable resource. The Coding Train site has additional resources, like links to multiple sketches that represent the state of the code at different times in the video.