Awesome VL

A collection of libraries, resources and examples for vvvv and VL.
Feel free to contribute to this list!

Official Channels

vvvv Group

• visualprogramming.net - The official website for vvvv gamma
• vvvv.org - The old website for vvvv beta
• Forum - The official forum
• GitHub - The official GitHub page
• vvvvTV - The official YouTube channel
• The Gray Book - The official documentation
• The Gray Book Repository - The repository for the official documentation
• VL-Language - The official repo for the design of the VL programming language

Community

• The NODE Institute - Institute for applied creative computation, hosting user meetups, workshops, webinars and online courses for creative coding and media arts.
• NODE Forum - A platform for sharing and investigating creative technologies, for artistic research and cultural and political media education.
• Stride - The official website of Stride, the open-source game enginge that provides the backend for 3D rendering in vvvv.
• thefuselab.io - The official website of FUSE, the open-source library for visually programming on the GPU.

Sponsoring Pages

• Stride on OpenCollective - Sponsoring page for the Stride game engine.
• The Fuse Lab on OpenCollective - Sponsoring page for the VL.Fuse library.
• Kairos Research Lab on OpenCollective - Sponsoring page for the VL.Kairos library.
• chk on Ko-Fi - Sponsoring page for the tutorial nuget VL.TheBigBang.

Libraries

General

• VL.CoreLib - The main vvvv core library
• VL.StandardLibs - A collection of standard libraries for vvvv
• VL.Addons - A place to gather contributions by the vvvv community, including a great amount of extended texture generators and filters
• VL.NewLibrary.Template - A template for a new VL library

Rendering

• VL.CEF - Set of nodes to render websites in Skia and Stride
• VL.Fuse - An open-source library for visually programming on the GPU
• VL.Skia - The main 2D rendering engine
• VL.Skia3d - A simple 3D addon for VL.Skia
• VL.Stride - The main 3D rendering and game engine
• VL.Stride.TextureFX - Texture sources, filters and mixers

Shaders & Renderung Utils

• VL.2D.CurveFitting - Nodes to create bezier lines from input points
• VL.2D.Voronoi - Nodes to generate voronoi diagrams
• VL.3D.Curve - A library to render 3d curves with VL.Stride
• VL.AetherPhysics - A library based on Aether Physics
• VL.Attractors - Attractor library for VL.Fuse
• VL.Boids-GPU - GPU Boids Simulation implemented in VL
• VL.Dope - Deform objects by points and edges
• VL.Fresnel - Fresnel Shader for VL.Stride
• VL.Fuse.DomainExtensions - todo
• VL.PolyTools - Tools for working with Polygons and Polypaths
• VL.Radiosity - 2D Radiosity Shader
• VL.ShadowCatcher - todo
• VL.Stride.BezierPatch - Set of nodes to create bezier surfaces

Video

• VL.Video - Set of nodes for video capture and playback
• VL.HapPlayer - HAP GPU Video Playback Plugin (requires a license)

Text

• VL.Stride.Text3d - Nodes to render extruded 3D text
• VL.RichTextKit - Wrapper for rich text rendering
• VL.BMFont - todo

Control

• VL.AutomataUI - A finite statemachine editor for .NET
• VL.Kairos - A complete framework for data control and composition
• VL.LoopTool - A small toolset to create video loops and record them

User Interfaces

• VL.Elementa - Collection of widgets for easy UI prototyping
• VL.ImGui - A node set around ImGui to render user interfaces in Skia and Stride
• VL.ImGui.Extensions - Collection of ImGui widgets & editors

Math & Algorithms

• VL.FastNoise - Noise Generator in VL
• VL.FastNoiseLite - Noise generation library with a large selection of noise algorithms
• VL.Interpolator - Nodes to interpolate any kind of type
• VL.SmallestCircle - Calculate the smallest enclosing circle for a set of 2D points
• VL.RogueSharp - A library for game development of roguelikes, including methods for pathfinding and field of view

Audio

• VL.Audio - Record, play, filter, synthesize and analyse sound
• VL.Audio.GPL - GPL licensed extensions to VL.Audio
• VL.Audio.LTC - Nodes to encode and decode Linear (or Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) in VL.Audio
• VL.GameAudioPlayer - High level command based audio player
• VL.SCSynth - SuperCollider Server Library for VL

Music Utils

• VL.Harmony - Library for working with musical concepts
• VL.MiDi.Music.Utils - Midi utilities
• VL.Music - Collection of music related tools
• VL.Orpheus - Collection of tools for music theory and music concepts

Computer Vision

• VL.Augmenta - Support for Augmenta tracking technology
• VL.MediaPipe - Camera tracking, image segmentation and object detection from a video stream
• VL.OpenCV - A VL wrapper for OpenCVSharp

Projection Mapping

• VL.BadMapper - Collection of tools for convenient manual blending (softedge) and warping (homography, bezier)
• VL.Mapper - Projection mapping tool for vvvv
• VL.VIOSOWarpBlend - Wrapper for the VIOSO WarpBlend API
• VL.ScalableDisplay - Support for the auto projector-alignment technology by Scalable Display Solutions (not open-source)
• VL.Domemaster - Example to render a scene in the Domemaster format (forum post)

IO

Protocols

• VL.BlueIOT - Support for the BlueIOT open API
• VL.IO.AbletonLink - Wrapper for Ableton Link
• VL.IO.ArtNet - Support for sending and receiving Art-Net
• VL.IO.M2MQTT - An MQTT client for accessing an MQTT broker
• VL.IO.Midi - Midi nodes and tools
• VL.IO.MQTTnet - MQTT nodes, based on MQTTnet
• VL.IO.NDI - Provides support for NDI®
• VL.IO.NetMQ - Set of nodes to work with NetMQ aka ZeroMQ
• VL.IO.OSC - Provides support for the OSC protocol
• VL.IO.OSCQuery - Allows to expose parameters via the OSCQuery protocol
• VL.IO.RCP - Set of nodes to use RCP
• VL.IO.SPNet - Receive data via the SPNet protocol
• VL.IO.TCP - Set of nodes to use TCP
• VL.IO.TUIO - Provides support for the TUIO protocol
• VL.IO.WebSocket - Set of nodes to use websocket client and server
• VL.IO.Net.Email - Nodes to do basic email tasks
• VL.PJLink - Nodes to connect and control projectors via the PJLink protocol
• VL.TUIO - Alternative TUIO library based on TUIO.Net
• VL.TUIO.HDE - TUIO simulator and monitor

HTTP

• VL.IO.HTTP.WebServer - Set of nodes to run a webserver
• VL.SimpleHTTP - A super-simple set of nodes to perform basic HTTP queries
• VL.TorSharp - Allows to make HTTP requests via the TOR network

File Formats

• VL.Alembic - A plugin to read .abc Alembic files.
• VL.Assimp - An alternative 3d model loader for Stride
• VL.IO.PLY - Provides support to read .ply files in VL
• VL.PDF - todo
• VL.PDFReader - A simple PDF-Reader for VL
• VL.Rhino.3dm - A plugin to simplify the process of importing Rhinoceros 3D files
• VL.SRT - Nodes to deal with subtitles
• VL.OpenEXR - A simple OpenEXR and .hdr image format loader

Databases

• VL.InfluxDB - Nodes that allow to connect and write to an InfluxDB database
• VL.IO.Redis - A Redis client for accessing Redis databases

Devices

Input

• VL.Devices.SICK - A plugin to interact with SICK lidar scanners
• VL.Devices.SpaceMouse - A package for using the SpaceMouse by 3dConnexion
• VL.Devices.SpaceMouseHID - Use 3DConnexion SpaceMice in via HID instead of their driver
• VL.Devices.StreamDeck - A package for using Elgato StreamDeck button displays
• VL.Devices.TheEyeTribe - Set of nodes to use the eye tracker by TheEyeTribe
• VL.Devices.WinTab - A set of VL nodes for using WinTab devices
• VL.GameController - A library to support SDL GameControllers
• VL.IO.MouseKeyGlobal - Global mouse and keyboard hook
• VL.IO.OpenVR - Wrapper for Valve's OpenVR that enables the use of Vive trackers without a HMD
• VL.IO.Xbox360Controller - Nodes for the Xbox 360 Controller

Output

• VL.Devices.ENTTEC - Support for ENTTEC DMX devices
• VL.ILDA - ILDA laser control
• VL.M8Display - A library for Dirtywave M8 Remote Displays

Cameras

• VL.Devices.Astra - A package for using Astra depth cameras by Orbbec
• VL.Devices.AzureKinect - A package for using Azure Kinect depth cameras by Microsoft
• VL.Devices.AzureKinect.Body - A package for using Azure Kinect body tracking
• VL.Devices.DigiCamControl - A package for remote controlling DSLR cameras
• VL.Devices.IDS - Support for uEye and uEye+ industrial cameras by IDS Imaging
• VL.Devices.Kinect - A package for using Kinect and Kinect XBOX 360 by Microsoft
• VL.Devices.Kinect2 - A package for using Kinect2 depth cameras by Microsoft
• VL.Devices.LeapOrion - A package for using the Motion Controller by Ultraleap, using the Orion SDK
• VL.Devices.NuiTrack - A package for using the Nuitrack depth camera API
• VL.Devices.RealSense - A package for using RealSense depth cameras by Intel
• VL.Devices.TheImagingSource - Support for using industrial cameras by The Imaging Source
• VL.Devices.uEye - VL nodes for using uEye cameras by IDS-Imaging
• VL.Devices.ZED - A package for using ZED depth cameras by Stereolabs
• VL.PTZ - Set of nodes to work with PTZ cameras

Physical Computing

• VL.IO.Firmata - Provides support for the Firmata protocol
• VL.Devices.Phidgets - Integration for Phidgets

Other Devices

• VL.Devices.DeckLink - A package for using DeckLink capture cards by Blackmagic Design
• VL.Devices.Robotiq - Nodes to control a Robotiq 3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper

Machine Learning

• VL.2D.DollarQ - Gesture regognition library
• VL.Accord - todo
• VL.DlibDotNet - Some parts of DlibDotNet library ported to VL
• VL.OpenAI - Nodes for the OpenAI API
• VL.PythonNET - Python interpreter for vvvv and base for many AI tools and workflows
• VL.Wekinator - A library to communicate with Wekinator via OSC

System & Extensions

• VL.Benchmarks - A performance testing suite for VL
• VL.DebugInfo.HDE - An editor extension that displays relevant debug information
• VL.GlassWindow - Makes the background of the rendering windows transparent
• VL.HardwareMonitor - Nodes to retrieve various metrics from your computer hardware
• VL.ScreenRecorder - A simple screen recorder
• VL.SharedMemory - Shared memory implementation to exchange data
• VL.WinFormsUtils - Nodes to expose useful functions of the Windows Forms API

Misc

• VL.DBSCAN - A simple implementation of the DBSCAN .NET library
• VL.OpenWeather - Wrapper for some APIs from OpenWeather
• VL.Postman - Plugin to turn Postman collection exports into ready to use nodes
• VL.QRCode - QRCode encoder and decoder
• VL.StringExtensions - Nodes for extended methods when working with strings
• VL.Telegram - Wrapper of the Telegram.Bot lib

Learning

Tutorial NuGets

• VL.TheBigBang - A tutorial series of 42 chapters, covering all nodes and techniques to get you started.
• VL.ExtendedTutorials - Extended tutorial help patches, covering common questions as learners move from beginner towards intermediate.
• VL.GenerativeGestaltung - Sketches from the book "Generative Gestaltung" implemented in vvvv gamma.

Tutorial Videos

• Tutorial for Absolute Beginners of VL - A tutorial series of 7 videos by chk, covering the most basic nodes and techniques.
• Intermediate Tutorials for vvvv gamma - Tutorials by TobyK, focusing on advanced topics about development and architecture.
• vvvv gamma graphics tutorials - Tutorials focusing on techniques on how to generate cool graphics by Takuma Nakata.
• NODE20 Workshops - 30 workshops, 90 hours of learning, recorded at NODE20 Forum for Digital Arts in October 2020.
• Model Runtime Editor Design Pattern - A convenient way to structure your software and build a flexible app architecture.
• Midweek Patch Therapy - Highlights from the weekly Midweek Patch Therapy meetings, created and hosted by domj.

Examples

• Community Coding: Design Patterns - A discussion about implementing various design patterns taken from the book "Head First Design Patterns".
• VL.HeadFirstDesignPatterns - Repository containing examples of design patterns taken from the book "Head First Design Patterns".
• TextureFX+ - A forum thread about TextureFX+, a collection of texture generators and filters gathered by the community, available in VL.Addons
• Nodevember 2022 - Example patches by CeeYaa during Nodevember 2022.
• Genuary 2023 - Example patches by CeeYaa during Genuary 2023.
• VL.Snake - A VL clone of the game Snake
• VL.Breakout - A VL clone of the game Breakout
• VL.DemoLib - A demo library showing how to write nodes in C#
• Kartinki - A game for children - your draw with words, then color with numbers
• VL.LED-Controller - Work in progress project to control lights from an ImGui interface

Online Courses

• The Stride Bundle - 5 intermediate courses focusing on VL.Stride
• The Fuse Bundle - 8 intermediate courses focusing on VL.Fuse
• Game Logic - A workshop about creating Flappy Bird in VL

Other Resources

Tools

• GammaLauncher - A simple launcher for vvvv gamma.
• Material Editors - Forum thread about open-source material editors.
• MergeVLDocs - A first step towards an easy-to-use visual merge tool
• Stride Shader Explorer - A tool showing the built-in shaders of the Stride game engine and their inheritance hierarchy.

Software made with VL

• Remoter - GUI over PAExec and robocopy to remote a bunch of PCs at once.
• Schema - An intuitive visual programming interface and runtime.
• TexconvGui - A simple Gui for Microsoft's Texconv to batch convert images.

Articles

• About vvvv gamma - The NODE Institute
• Resolume vs. TouchDesigner vs. vvvv - The Interactive & Immersive HQ
• The flow of creative expression: Paving the way for vvvv - MESO
• What is VVVV + Fuse and Why It's a Powerful Combo for New Media - Ameen Insan