[ lazycoder ]

An experimental pattern generator for automated live visuals performance. Look ma, no hands.

About

Lazycoder is a small experimental Node application that generates completely original randomised Cyril live code patterns, and edits them automatically on the fly.

The application logic is built on tracery.js, a story-grammar generation library by Kate Compton.

Currently this is OSX only, as Cyril is OSX only. As and when it gets ported, this should ideally still work...

Installation

• Download Cyril
• Install Node if you haven't already
• Do npm link from inside the project directory to make the lazycoder command available system-wide
• If this has worked, running lazycoder version should display the application version number
• That's it!

Usage

• Start up Cyril, and ensure the first frame is running. To do this, it cmd-1 to select the first frame, and cmd-r to run the code in that frame. This frame will stay updated as Lazycoder runs.
• You can hide the code/frame display in Cyril by hitting cmd-a, and hit cmd-f to go full screen.
• Lazycoder commands are executed from the same directory level as the Cyril application (i.e. next to the Cyril app)
• To create a single new pattern, run lazycoder once. This is handy for testing.
• To run the full looping cycle, do lazycoder start. This will generate a new pattern, and then continually edit it's parameters over time until one of a few thresholds is reached, at which point a new pattern may be generated.
• To stop the loop, kill the process or do lazycoder stop

License

This prototype is released under the Do What The Fuck You Want public license, see LICENSE.md for details.