Functions as patterns 🌈

Exploring patterns as a means of understanding and documenting functions.

Inspired by the work of Alex McLean (@yaxu) using visual patterns to explain the live coding language Tidal: Tidal Pattern Language for Live Coding of Music

Install:

Add to your project.clj file:

[functions-as-patterns "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"]

Example:

(require 'functions-as-patterns.core :refer :all)

(view-as-colors 
  (partition 3 (range 10)))

(view-as-colors
  (partition-all 3 (range 10))))

(partition 3 )

;;=>

(partition-all 3 )

;;=>

Api:

;;Render to file, assume arguments are colors
(render "/tmp/" (partition 2 (hues 10)))

;;Render to file, convert arguments to colors
(render-as-colors "/tmp/" (partition 2 (range 10)))

;;Render assuming arguments are colors
(view (partition 2 (hues 10)))

;;Render mapping arguments to colors
(view-as-colors (partition 2 (range 10)))

License

Copyright © 2017-present Joseph Wilk

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