Tin

Tin is a simple framework written in Swift for media arts programming suitable for learning how to code. Tin requires Swift 4, and macOS 10.13+. A few of the priorities that influence Tin.

• Use Swift Programming language.
• Be Swift native, and Swifty in spirit - as long as that is simple.
• Simple, easy to learn.
• Two frameworks/libraries that I'm inspired by in their directness and simplicity: from long ago, IrisGL; from recent teaching experience, Processing.
• Simplicity and clarity is more important than immediate optimization.
• Work in a way that will allow other (more complex, and specialized) libraries to be used, whether in a user project, or in future framework extensions.

The current (limited) drawing API reflects these priorities. Rendering is done using CoreGraphics apis. A user can easily get a context and do any addition CG drawing. The framework implementation is intended to allow for the possibilty of multiple Rendering implementations. I hope to (soon) create an alternative that directly uses Metal apis.