simple-game VS nannou

I have a somewhat naive version of this sort of system running via wgpu, but that's likely lower level than you'd want to go.

I won't claim this is great code, but poke around a little bit at my wgpu code and get a sense for how it compares to OpenGL. Overall the concepts are pretty close to each other, it's just that you declare everything up front instead of poking at OpenGL via functions to set things to the state you want.

It's really not that bad. I had some complaints about WGSL a few months ago but it was surprising how quickly it improved. Here are some simple real-world shaders you can look at:

https://github.com/bschwind/simple-game/tree/9de179085a04dd4...

If you combine it with a quick build step to give you shader compilation errors before your program runs, it becomes a pretty nice shading language. There are still a few rough edges but it's not _that_ bad to work with.

Thanks! I ended up going that route here

Another idea would be to do something with Nannou, it's pretty straightforward to get some visually pleasing results and I find these Processing/P5 inspired creative coding libraries allow for a lot of exploration and expression. The Coding Train is a YouTube channel which has dozens of these kinds of projects, translating them into Rust certainly is good exercise.

Assuming you’re talking about https://nannou.cc they advertise a slack, a matrix, and a github org.

Never used this, no idea If it's what you want, but maybe https://nannou.cc/?

https://nannou.cc/ may be worth checking out.

"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...

I've exported individual frames using this mechanism, I've never tried gif encoding before but seems like there's support for it,