Top 6 Rust creative-coding Projects

nannou

29 5,272 6.4 Rust

A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

Project mention: Looking for lib recommendations for developing ui tool | /r/learnrust | 2023-05-20

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

7 100 10.0 Rust

A framework-agnostic Rust/WASM + WebGL2 Rendering library, compatible with calling from both Rust and JavaScript on the web.

Project mention: A new WebGL rendering library written in Rust | /r/webgl | 2022-10-24

It’s also callable from JavaScript if you don’t want to have to deal with the Rust toolchain. Checkout this directory if you want to see some copyable examples, including raw html and javascript, which is about the lowest barrier to entry you can get I think: https://github.com/austintheriot/wrend/tree/master/examples
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wgshadertoy

2 32 10.0 Rust

A WGSL playground inspired by Shadertoy.

Project mention: A Shadertoy-liked shader playground with WGSL supported | /r/shaders | 2022-11-28

If you are interested in this, try it out. You can find pre-built packages for your OS from here.
generative-art

0 29 1.2 Rust

My personal project for generative art. (by chilipepperhott)
astro-nannou-starter

2 8 10.0 Rust

A minimal boilerplate for Astro / Vite with the Nannou creative framework (Rust → WASM). Supports multiple sketches + hot-reload.

Project mention: Astro / Vite and Nannou (Rust). WebGPU goodness for creative coding | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-12-29

This is a minimal boilerplate for Astro / Vite with the Nannou creative framework (Rust → WASM).
Supports multiple sketches + hot-reload.
It can be a good starter for any Rust + WASM workspace, not necessarily for creative coding ;)
https://github.com/JulianCataldo/astro-nannou-starter
rustmas

1 6 10.0 Rust

Christmas lights controller capable of displaying 3D animations

Project mention: Rustmas: 3D animations on your Christmas tree | /r/rust | 2022-12-19

The entire thing (including the web frontend!) is written in Rust, and is [available on GitHub](https://github.com/mrozycki/rustmas), so if your interested, you can try running it yourself! If you don't have programmable lights, we have also implemented an OpenGL visualiser^1, and included a sample set of light coordinates. The instructions are all included in the repository. The process for setting up your own lights is unfortunately a bit involved, but only has to be done once.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-05-20.