Nightgraph: Putting Code to Paper with Rust
summary
nightgraph is a Rust creative‑coding stack that turns parametric shapes into SVG for pen plotters, with an interactive parameter UI that updates sketches live (native + wasm) and a graphics API that exposes concrete features: stroke generation, boolean ops like difference/offset, shape queries (area, centroid, intersections), and flattening to segments. demo shows e‑gui UI handling hundreds of thousands of line segments responsively; kerbo supplies robust bezier discretization; CLI is clap‑style. current gaps: no direct UI export, compiled sketches require rebuild, and scripting for third‑party code is experimental (gluon/mun explored).
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:28About me
- 3:47Plotters
- 4:35SVGs
- 6:20Initial Rust Works
- 7:52Language
- 10:37OpenCAD vs Pen
- 11:21Closed Shapes
- 13:01Nightgraph Components
- 14:20Nightgraph Shapes
- 17:00Shapes
- 17:53Centroid
- 18:14Canvas
- 18:36API
- 19:34Sketch
- 19:59Execution Context
- 20:12Clap
- 22:46Parameters
- 25:13Attributes
- 25:41Sketch List
- 26:21Nightgraph CLI
- 28:22param metadata
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