Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment

Contemporary WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) design software utilizes digital Artboards which are finite graphics frames that sit atop a scrollable zooming canvas; where many graphics frames can be arbitrarily arranged, scaled and duplicated to explore and juxtapose design ideas. Despite creative practitioners increasingly writing code to explore design spaces, programming environments for Creative Coding regularly only display one graphics frame per program. This hinders the non-linear nature of the creative process where seeing a trail of process work can spark new ideas. We propose bridging this gap and introduce Stamper, an Artboard-Oriented authoring environment for the popular creative coding library p5.js.