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p5 is a Python library that provides high level drawing functionality to help you quickly create simulations and interactive art using Python. It combines the core ideas of Processing — learning to code in a visual context — with Python’s readability to make programming more accessible to beginners, educators, and artists.

To report a bug / make a feature request use the issues page in this repository. You can also use the discourse platform to ask/discuss anything related to p5py.

Example

https://github.com/p5py/p5/raw/develop/docs/_static/readme.gif

p5 programs are called “sketches” and are run as any other Python program. The sketch above, for instance, draws a circle at the mouse location that gets a random reddish color when the mouse is pressed and is white otherwise; the size of the circle is chosen randomly. The Python code for the sketch looks like:

from p5 import *

def setup():
    size(640, 360)
    no_stroke()
    background(204)

def draw():
    if mouse_is_pressed:
        fill(random_uniform(255), random_uniform(127), random_uniform(51), 127)
    else:
        fill(255, 15)

    circle_size = random_uniform(low=10, high=80)

    circle((mouse_x, mouse_y), circle_size)

def key_pressed(event):
    background(204)

# p5 supports different backend to render sketches, viz "vispy" for both 2D and 3D sketches and "skia" for 2D sketches
# Default renderer is set to "vispy"
run(renderer="vispy")

Documentation

The p5py documentation can be found here p5 documentation

Installation

Take a look at the installation steps here in the p5 installation page

Contributing

We welcome contributions from anyone, even if you are new to open source. You can start by fixing the existing issues in p5py. In case you need any help or support from the p5py development community, you can join our slack group.

License

p5 is licensed under the GPLv3. See LICENSE for more details. p5 also includes the following components from other open source projects:

All licenses for these external components are available in the LICENSES folder.

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