Mosaicode

A Visual Programming Environment and source code generator for specific domains, focusing on Digital Art.

Getting Started

Getting a copy of the project up and running on your local machine. Supported Platform: GNU/Linux.

Prerequisites

Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the following command to install the software dependencies:

sudo apt install python3 libgtk-3-dev gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python-cairo-dev python3-lxml python3-goocalendar python3-bs4 python3-soupsieve python-gi-dev python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0

Installation

Steps to install the Mosaicode in a virtual environment or in the operational system directory.

Virtual Environment / Isolated from system directories

Installing python virtual environment via terminal:

sudo apt install python3.8-venv

Setting the virtual environment:

1. Create the environment: python3 -m venv <virtual environment name>
2. Active the environment: source <virtual environment path>/<virtual environment name>/bin/activate
3. Install prerequisites: sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev gcc libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev
4. Install PyGObject: python -m pip install PyGObject
5. Install Mosaicode: python setup.py install

More details in the Python 3 Virtual Environments and Packages documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

Operational System Directories

Run via terminal:

sudo python setup.py install

Mosaicode Extensions

Some extensions that you can install to add visual programming languages with resources from areas of computing which allow the development of tools to support Digital Art in a simple and practical way: dragging and connecting blocks:

Technology	Domain	Extension repository	Operating
Javascript / Web Audio API	Computer Music	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-javascript-webaudio	Yes
C / OpenCV	Computer vision	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-c-opencv	No
C / Opengl	Computer graphics	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-c-opengl	No
Javascript / Canvas	Graphics on a web	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-javascript-canvas	No
C / Linux-Joystick	USB Controller	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-c-joystick	No
C / Gtk	GUI	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-c-gtk	No
C / Portaudio	Computer Music	https://github.com/Alice-ArtsLab/mosaicode-c-sound	No

Related pages

ALICE. Lab: https://alice.dcomp.ufsj.edu.br/

Contact

Asking to:

• [email protected]