[araes]

Looking at the page, it seems like there's nothing other than art installations in the Showcase. https://visualprogramming.net/#Showcase Is there something about the software the predisposes it being used only for art installations? Or just the community it attracts? It "looks" capable.

It seems weird that out of all the showcases, there's not anything like normal industry projects. No games, no movies, no television shows. Lots of museum displays, AI scultures, art walls.

Take Blender instead https://www.blender.org/features/ and its almost entirely "industry production pipeline" and "award winning shorts and films". Or Maya, which is pretty much nothing other than "used in Hogwarts, used in Avengers, used in Dune." Notably, not very many art walls or digi-scultures.

Usually its a chicken and egg thing, like nobody uses it, because nobody famous has used it yet, except vvvv looks like it has plenty of users.

[bj-rn]

> Or just the community it attracts?

The way it works seems to appeal to "artists" / "creatives". It's pretty simple to get a visual output fast and the always running (hot-reload) aspect makes it easy to iterate on things, tweak some parameter (size, speed, color) and directly see the outcome.

> normal industry projects

It's used quite a lot in the context of trade fairs, not only for touchscreen exhibits but also stage shows. Nice example: https://nsynk.de/work/mercedes-iaa15

There are also totally different kinds of projects/uses, they are just not that well documented. For example I know of a guy that programmed a feeding robot for a fish farm using vvvv.

> nobody famous

There is at least one "famous" user :)

https://refikanadol.com

If you have further questions feel free to join their matrix chat:

https://matrix.to/#/#vvvv:matrix.org

[araes]

Thanks for the answers, explanation, and invite. It looks like interesting software, and live update does seem like a nice feature. I guess I'm just surprised that does not appeal to the WebGl, javascript, and online community all that much, since that's one of the main perks of those is quick feedback without compiling. Tweak, load the page.

Had not heard of Anadol (not much involvement in the pro art community), yet working with the sphere in Vegas probably means at least fairly well known.