villares/sketch-a-day

One visual idea a day

sketch-a-day

coding a visual idea a day

Welcome! My name is Alexandre Villares and since January, 2018 I have been coding sketches everyday, publishing the source code in the same repository that stores this page, github.com/villares/sketch-a-day.

The results are mostly tentative, exploratory, and I don’t feel like they need to be relevant or meaningful on any particular day. The everyday practice leads to the emergence of ideas that I consider interesting, worthy of further exploration. Some of those have been added to selected work, this collection itself became valuable for me, and it is my pleasure to share it with anyone willing to explore coding as a creative and expressive medium.

Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding licenses to use my work, teaching opportunities, consulting or other projects. Moreover, I kindly invite you to follow me on Mastodon [@[email protected]]. If you appreciate what I have been doing, you may support my artistic work, research and open educational resources I publish on-line using gumroad.com/villares, PayPal or PIX at 46c37783-5edb-4f1c-b3a8-1309db11488c.

Here are listed some of the tools I have been using:

• [py5] A new Processing Java + Python 3 amazing tool
• [pyp5js] initially a Python to p5js trancriptor, now a pyodide + p5js tool
• [pyscript] A new Python in the browser tool.
• [Py.Processing] Processing Python mode
• [Processing Java Processing Java or "standard" mode
• [p5.js] JavaScript library from the Processing Foundation
• [shoebot] Generate 2D vector graphics with Python
• [FreeCAD] A wonderful 3D modeling tool, CAD & more, Python infused.
• [p5py] A Python 3 implementation of Processing ideas (no Java needed)
• [flat] A generative infrastructure library for Python (via Allison Parrish's Bezmerizing)
• [VPython] Python + glowscript gives you 3D on the browser
• [PySimpleGUI] Python GUIs for Humans

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Full site: abav.lugaralgum.com/sketch-a-day

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The sketch-a-day project, images and code repository, by Alexandre B A Villares are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International , except if marked/attributed otherwise in a file or code section. Please contact for licensing questions.

sketch-a-day's Issues

Your artwork in AMAZING! 💗 it!

Wow!

The images you've posted, created using Python, are stunning.

I would love to see what you can do with PySimpleGUI... if there's any fit there.

I noticed you're using the older calls that are not PEP8 compliant. I recommend using the PEP8 methods (they're all lowercase). For example draw_rectangle. They're listed first in the SDK reference. https://www.pysimplegui.org/en/latest/call%20reference/#graph-element.

The Demo Programs are the best design patterns to copy from as they follow the most recent coding conventions.

Thanks for posting a screenshot... can't wait to see what's possible in the hands of a skilled artist.

Thread - Demo Programs have threading design patterns.... added a new Trinket one.

pip install psgdemos

Run the demo browser and search (F2) for stuff like start_thread or long_operation

You cannot make a PySimpleGUI call from a thread... the one exception is write_event_value which enables you to inject an event into a window's event loop.

I added this trinket that may help you see the latest way I do threading.

https://pysimplegui.trinket.io/demo-programs#/multi-threaded/multi-threaded-download-2022-design-pattern