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Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment

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36 pointsbobbiechen10 comments

Glad to see they used Processing. In high school I introduced my CS classmates to Processing after hearing about it on The Creative Coding Podcast. We made tons of games and interesting simulations like the popular boids algorithm for birds and a classmate made the game Worms. I remember using it in a CS class in high school to implement minimax with alpha/beta pruning for Othello. It’s a great environment to teach and learn coding in. Dan Shiffman wrote some great books to teach Processing from if you’re interested.

Shiffman's "The Coding Train" is one of the best video tutorial series on YouTube. It's an absolutely incredible resource.

> Use Chrome on a desktop please!

No, test in other browsers please!

This is unnecessarily negative for something that is presented as being in the prototype stage. Testing on multiple platforms out of the gate impedes experimentation.

(As a Firefox user, I agree that the launched version should support other browsers, of course!)

It’s not negative. It’s actually a positive that people running other browsers would like support. I just widened his potential user base for future experiments. Just because it’s a criticism doesn’t immediately indicate tone.

Arguably only developing for Chrome is what is impeding experimentation by not allowing it to be run on other browsers.

Back to the good old times of ie6.

It's interesting how the poster (at least, the submission seems like a conference poster) doesn't even mention one of the most important and commonly-used pieces of prior art in this medium: Xcode's Interface Builder storyboards. In fact, they work very similar to what the authors created: there's links between boards (representing segues between screens), links between UI and code (IBOutlets and IBActions).

From a research perspective, is it novel? Would it really be the appropriate resisted work to reference to other researchers in the field?

Interesting! Reminds me of the Unity shader graph editor -- the visualization of in-between nodes of the computation graph. For example: https://blogs.unity3d.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image2....

That's pretty similar to every node-based shader editor I've seen - and in turn shader editors are similar to other of node-based environments where there's a graphical output (compositing software springs to mind)

(Not being difficult for the sake of it. I think it's important to focus on the things that make Stamper different to similar tools)

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