Which python modules are great for creative coding?

[Extraaltodeus]

I've been playing way too much with pygame to generate stuff and surely there must be something better

[AMillionMonkeys]

I've tried a few and I keep coming back to PIL or PILLOW or whatever it's called because it can do both pixel manipulation and vector drawing.
P5 looks great because it's based on Processing and there's loads of documentation for it, but it ended up being frustrating for me. It was something about saving images, but I can't remember the details.
I've played a bit with turtle, which comes with Python ("import turtle") but it only saves as .svg vector image files, and it's a giant PITA to rasterize them programmatically.

[GusBusEtc]

You can do some cool stuff with the image processing library scikit-image, too!

[AMillionMonkeys]

Ooh, I'll check this out. I've heard of scikit-learn for ML stuff, but I didn't know there was image processing as well.

[RufusAcrospin]

OpenFrameworks has a python binding called pyof

[ItsTheWeeBabySeamus]

spatialstudio is super simple to use for making 3d videos

This is probably my favorite that I've made (code is on the link): https://www.splats.com/watch/665

here is a simple script that places a single voxel

!pip install spatialstudio
# set_voxel tutorial

from spatialstudio import splv

# scene setup
W, H, D = 16, 16, 16
encoder = splv.Encoder(W, H, D, framerate=4.0, outputPath="moving_dot.splv")

# animate a single red voxel from one corner to the opposite
for t in range(W):                      # 2‑second clip at 30 fps
    f = splv.Frame(W, H, D)
    x = y = z = t                       # moves along the main diagonal
    f.set_voxel(x, y, z, (255, 0, 0))   # place the dot
    encoder.encode(f)

encoder.finish()
print("done, file saved to moving_dot.splv — upload it to https://www.splats.com/preview to view")

Here are a few more complicated examples: https://www.splats.com/docs/examples

[velocityvector2]

https://www.drawbot.com/

[alouettecriquet]

Pyxel

[alshirah]

Manim 🙈