https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara
A virtual machine for creating visual live coding languages
https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara
algorave creative-coding languages livecoding quilting
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A virtual machine for creating visual live coding languages
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/kitzeller/barbara
- Owner: kitzeller
- Created: 2019-10-03T10:57:38.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-02-12T04:29:37.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-09T14:04:34.309Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: algorave, creative-coding, languages, livecoding, quilting
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://www.barbara.graphics
- Size: 21.1 MB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
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README
# Barbara
Barbara is a novel live coding interface that enables users to design languages for visual geometric pattern generation.
Inspired by algorithmic quilting patterns, Barbara helps users construct languages that mimic real-world quilting procedures
which can be used for both live coding performance or digital quilt recreation. Users create languages and patterns in
Barbara’s online coding environment with the Parsing Expression Grammar language formalism; the resulting patterns can
be freely shared, remixed, and combined into new quilts. As a push towards the applications of language-oriented design,
we created Barbara to broaden access to the power of computational media and the beauty of quilting for both programmers
and quilters alike. Barbara is free and open-source software.
## Local Development Server
In order to create a local development server, clone this repo. You will need to have a local instance of [MongoDB](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-community/) running.
Then create a `.env` file in the root folder and add the connection string. If you have named the database barbara, this may look like `MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/barbara`.
You can then run the server using `npm start`.
## Repo Structure
- [changelog](CHANGELOG.md) barbara changelog
- [public](public) directory contains the vm code
- [models](models) directory contains the mongodb model schemas
## Acknowledgements
Thank you to Charlie Roberts and Gillian Smith for their help and support.