1Shoebox Shoebox - Pure Python version/rewrite of Nodebox, a Mac-only graphics programming environment
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Shoebox - Pure Python version/rewrite of Nodebox, a Mac-only graphics programming environment Shoebox is a pure Python version/rewrite of Nodebox, a Mac-only graphics programming environment. Shoebox uses the Cairo graphics engine for rendering, and instead of a full-fledged GUI it provides a simple command-line interface and the ability to be called from external Python scripts without effort.Shoebox also borrows from the principles outlined in the Little Coder's Predicament, a manifesto by the author of Shoes, which is a similar and awesome project using the Ruby language instead of Python.Shoebox can read scripts in the Nodebox language and output images in SVG, PostScript, PDF or PNG format.Comparing to graphics coding alternatives like Nodebox and Processing, Shoebox ends up being lighter and more flexible, thanks to not depending on an interface engine for rendering, and thus making it potentially suitable for CPU-conscious uses like server applications. Unlike Processing and Nodebox though, Shoebox can only output still images for the time being.Shoebox can be run stand-alone or as part of a Python program. There's a lot of stuff that is still subject to change and/or not working as it should - please regard it as being in a very early alpha phase -, but we're coding and typing hard to solve this!It should run on most GNU/Linux systems. It was also successfully tested on an Intel based Mac running OS X.Requirements:· Python 2.4 or newer· Cairo· PyCairo

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