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Installing
So you want to live program some art, do you? Eh? Well, lucky thing that - this is just the place to get you started. First up you need a few things:
- A Computer (a working one is best)
- A JVM - most computers have one of these inside (you will need a JRE that has graphics components)
- Something friendly called Leiningen installed (visit the link to find installation instructions)
- A terminal emulator with a lovely font and pretty colours.
OK, so the first step is to create yourself a new project directory structure. You can do that with lein new quil .... For example:
/Users/sam/demo $ lein new quil my-art
Generating a project called my-art based on the 'quil' template.
To see other templates (app, lein plugin, etc), try `lein help new`.
Now cd into your new project dir:
/Users/sam/demo/ $ cd my-art
Check to see if everything is in order:
/Users/sam/demo/my-art $ ls
LICENSE project.clj README.md src
Finally, fire up a REPL for coding fun:
/Users/sam/demo/my-art $ lein repl
...
nREPL server started on port 54408 on host 127.0.0.1
...
user=> (use 'my-art.core :reload-all)
Behold, your first Quil painting...
Now close Quil window, open src/my_art/core.clj in your favorite text editor and increase rotation speed by changing line
:angle (+ (:angle state) 0.1)to
:angle (+ (:angle state) 0.3)Save and start sketch again:
user=> (use 'my-art.core :reload-all)
Now circle rotates 3 times faster! For more advanced workflow where you don't need to close sketch window at all, but can update code on fly check Dynamic Workflow for REPL.