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Fugio (pronounced foo-gee-oh) is an open visual programming system for building digital art and creative projects quickly, with no programming experience required.
Download Fugio for Windows and OS X at http://www.bigfug.com/software/fugio
Fugio documentation lives at http://wiki.bigfug.com/Fugio
- Easy to learn interface
- Connect with a huge range of existing software and hardware tools
- Open Source
- No licence fees!
- Cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux)
- Stylesheet support - completely change the editor appearance
- Easy to extend with custom plugins
- Designed, developed, and maintained by artist Alex May
- Assimp - 3d model and animation loading via the Assimp library
- Audio - multi-channel audio analysis, processing, and mixing
- Core - general usage pins and nodes
- DMX - interface to DMX lighting and control systems
- ffmpeg - ffmpeg based video playback and recording (both with audio)
- FFTW - fast fourier transforms using the FFTW library
- File - file handling nodes
- GUI - interactive controls for rapid prototyping
- Image - image handling nodes
- Kinect - video, depth, and user information (Kinect v1)
- LeapMotion - hand tracking device
- Lua - fast scripting support using the Lua language
- Math - math functions
- Multimedia - simple audio and video playback
- Network - send and receive data over networks
- OculusRift - integrate the Oculus Rift VR headset
- OpenCV - advanced image processing algorithms
- OpenGL - work with 3D geometry, shaders, and multiple outputs
- OpenNI - Kinect support on Windows and OSX
- OSC - Open Sound Control send and receive
- Painter - script based 2d painting
- PortAudio - cross-platform audio input and output
- PortMidi - cross-platform MIDI input and output
- QML - design dynamic and responsive user interfaces
- RaspberryPi - added support for running on Raspberry Pi
- Serial - communicate with Arduino boards and other serial port hardware
- Spout - video sharing between applications on Windows
- Syphon - video sharing between applications on OSX
- Text - text processing nodes
- Time - utilities for working with time
- Timeline - advanced timeline framework with number, colour, grid, and signal tracks
- TUIO - interface with tangible multitouch surfaces
- VST - support for VST2 and VST3 audio processing plugins
- XInput - read game controllers on Microsoft Windows
There are building blocks called nodes that have inputs and outputs. Link the inputs to the outputs using your mouse. You now know how to use Fugio!
Fugio calls everything by its real-world name and doesn’t introduce needless jargon. What you learn here will be useful elsewhere. It hides the code and leaves you to process the real data how you need to.
Learning to break an idea down into smaller steps that can be described in code is just as important as learning to write the code itself (and much less frustrating). Using Fugio, you’ll naturally learn important programming concepts along the way without writing a single line of code.
Creating digital art is challenging enough without worrying whether it will still be working in the future when you want to show it again. Fugio is designed to be at the cutting edge of digital preservation with its robust, highly modular design allowing for reconfiguration or replacement of nodes without needing to rebuild the whole thing from scratch.
Fugio is designed to democratise access to technology for anyone who wants to use it, regardless of existing technical experience. It is amazing to see the worldwide enthusiasm and variety of quality resources to make learning to code available to everyone that has been happening over the past few years.
However, we have to recognise that coding just isn’t for everyone, and we don’t believe that anyone should have to learn to write code to understand or use computers if they don’t like doing it.
Fugio aims to allow access to high and low level technologies without having to write a single line of code, unless you want to, and then you can do that too!
Fugio is built in C++ using the Qt 5 Project for its excellent cross-platform support.
There is a programming API for Fugio allowing you to create custom nodes, GUI components, and other parts of the system.
You can use Visual Studio C++ Express on Windows, XCode on OS X, or standard build tools on Linux to create plugins - all free tools.
The name Fugio is:
- A portamento of fug (from bigfug) and I/O (for input/output)
- Is a Latin word meaning "speed" and "hasten"
Not really related but a "Fugio Cent" was the first official cent of the United States. It was designed by Benjamin Franklin and the first authorized by Congress (1787)