Shoebot

Shoebot is a creative coding environment designed for making vector graphics and animations with Python. It's geared towards playful graphic exploration, creating SVG images for pen plotters, and is a great tool for automated/headless image generation.

Shoebot takes a Python script describing a drawing process, and outputs a graphic in vector (SVG, PDF, PostScript) and bitmap formats (PNG). Animations can be easily created and output to video files (mp4). Scripts can describe their own GUIs for controlling variables interactively. Shoebot can also be run from the commandline and used as a Python module inside other Python scripts.

Shoebot is a port/rewrite of Nodebox 1, which is derived from DrawBot. The playful coding philosophy of Shoes also inspired its development. Thus, "Shoebot".

• How to install
• Getting started

Documentation

The Shoebot Manual can be found at docs.shoebot.net.

Getting help

Installation is the trickiest aspect of Shoebot. If you run into trouble following the install steps, create a new issue and paste the output of the following commands:

python3 setup.py diagnose
python3 setup.py test

This will help us diagnose common issues more quickly.

Links

• Website
• Documentation
• Source code
• Issue tracker

License

Copyright © 2007-2021 The Shoebot authors (Stuart Axon, Dave Crossland, Francesco Fantoni, Ricardo Lafuente, Sebastian Oliva)

Originally developed by Ricardo Lafuente with the support of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.