Barbara

Barbara is a novel live coding interface that enables users to design languages for visual geometric pattern generation. Inspired by algorithmic quilting patterns, Barbara helps users construct languages that mimic real-world quilting procedures which can be used for both live coding performance or digital quilt recreation. Users create languages and patterns in Barbara’s online coding environment with the Parsing Expression Grammar language formalism; the resulting patterns can be freely shared, remixed, and combined into new quilts. As a push towards the applications of language-oriented design, we created Barbara to broaden access to the power of computational media and the beauty of quilting for both programmers and quilters alike. Barbara is free and open-source software.

Local Development Server

In order to create a local development server, clone this repo. You will need to have a local instance of MongoDB running.

Then create a .env file in the root folder and add the connection string. If you have named the database barbara, this may look like MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/barbara.

You can then run the server using npm start.

Repo Structure

• changelog barbara changelog
• public directory contains the vm code
• models directory contains the mongodb model schemas

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Charlie Roberts and Gillian Smith for their help and support.