JarCastingMinart
Minart is a very minimalistic Scala library to put pixels in a canvas.
It's mostly useful for small toy projects or prototypes that deal with generative art or software rendering.
I wouldn't recommend using this in any serious production environment. The API is constantly changing and I'm not making any effort to maintain backwards compatibility.
Features
- JVM, JS and Native support
- Small footprint
- Double buffered canvas
- Integer scaling
- Keyboard Input
Concepts
The 3 main concepts in Minart are:
The CanvasManager
The CanvasManager, provides init and destroy operations to create and delete a new window with a Canvas.
The Canvas
The Canvas, which provides the operations required to draw on the window and read inputs:
putPixel(x: Int, y: Int, color: Color): UnitgetBackbufferPixel(x: Int, y: Int): ColorgetBackbufferPixel(): Vector[Vector[Color]]clear(resources: Set[Canvas.Resource]): Unitredraw(): UnitgetKeyboardInput(): KeyboardInput
The RenderLoop
The RenderLoop, which provides helpful operations to handle the render loops.
The provided methods take care of creating and destroying the window.
Note that clear/redraw still need to be called manually (since in some cases, it might be useful to not call those methods, especially clear)
finiteRenderLoop[S](initialState: S, renderFrame: S => S, terminateWhen: S => Boolean, frameRate: FrameRate): UnitinfiniteRenderLoop[S](initialState: S, renderFrame: S => S, frameRate: FrameRate): UnitinfiniteRenderLoop(renderFrame: Unit => Unit, frameRate: FrameRate): UnitsingleFrame(canvasManager: CanvasManager, renderFrame: Canvas => Unit)
Sample Usage
To include minart, simply add minart-core to your project:
libraryDependencies += "eu.joaocosta" %% "minart-core" % "0.2.0"
The examples folder contains some sample code.
The recommended way to use Minart is to use the RenderLoop, since it takes care of creating and destroying the window, while it also takes care of some low-level platform-specific details.
Here's a simple example that renders a color gradient to a screen:
import eu.joaocosta.minart.backend.defaults._
import eu.joaocosta.minart.core._
val canvasSettings = Canvas.Settings(
width = 128,
height = 128,
scale = 4)
RenderLoop.default().singleFrame(CanvasManager.default(canvasSettings), c => {
for {
x <- (0 until c.settings.width)
y <- (0 until c.settings.height)
} {
val color = Color((255 * x.toDouble / c.settings.width).toInt, (255 * y.toDouble / c.settings.height).toInt, 255)
c.putPixel(x, y, color)
}
c.redraw()
})
Note that you can avoid this and use the LowLevelCanvas interface, which is just a Canvas with CanvasManager. You also can remove the eu.joaocosta.minart.defaults._ import, but then you need to manually create the platform-specific canvas.
import eu.joaocosta.minart.core._
val canvasSettings = Canvas.Settings(
width = 128,
height = 128,
scale = 4)
val canvas = new AwtCanvas(canvasSettings)
canvas.init()
for {
x <- (0 until canvasSettings.width)
y <- (0 until canvasSettings.height)
} {
val color = Color((255 * x.toDouble / canvas.width).toInt, (255 * y.toDouble / canvas.height).toInt, 255)
canvas.putPixel(x, y, color)
}
canvas.redraw()
// ... eventually, call `canvas.destroy()`
Multiplatform support
To compile for different platforms, one needs to either use import eu.joaocosta.minart.backend.defaults._ package and use the default method or use the correct Canvas and RenderLoop (see the examples above).
The following canvas and render loops are available:
- All:
PpmCanvas - JVM:
AwtCanvasandJavaRenderLoop - JS:
HtmlCanvasandJsRenderLoop - Native:
SdlCanvasandSdlRenderLoop