Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

When I first read the description I thought it was going to be something like processing[0] but in lisp. Turns out this is something completely different.

[0] https://processing.org/

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by kossTKR » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

There is no explanation of what this is on the page. The one sentence description is meaningless to newcomers.

What is creative coding?

What does it have to do with creative writing?

You need a better explanation / demo.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by dash2 » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

tartoran wrote: post #4

suyash wrote: post #3

demo link / video?

This will probably give you some idea. I'm going to set it up give it a go. https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...

That tells people the things you can do, but not why you might want to do them. I think most people, especially writers, won't know what a creative coding environment is or why it might be right for them.

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by marcodiego » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

Title makes me think of the Ballmer peak: https://xkcd.com/323/

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by dkarl » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

kossTKR wrote: post #6

There is no explanation of what this is on the page. The one sentence description is meaningless to newcomers. What is creative coding? What does it have to do with creative writing? You need a better explanation / demo.

There's a Getting Started page linked in the README that shows what the software does. Not sure it makes much of a case for it being useful.

https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...

Re: Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)

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Post by tartoran » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #7

tartoran wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This will probably give you some idea. I'm going to set it up give it a go. https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...

That tells people the things you can do, but not why you might want to do them. I think most people, especially writers, won't know what a creative coding environment is or why it might be right for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding

Some things are made to experiment with, simply to play with. They may lead to different projects. I actually tried to get this going but I'm stuck after cloning the repo, there are some folders missing and the node server crashes. If anyone is able to get this running I'd appreciate if they told me how. I'm missing the /sounds folder