The Fabric Project hosts a constellation of software for creating high fidelity fabric interactive graphics on Apple platforms.
The Fabric project consists of:
Satin
- Satin is production ready framework for working interactive graphics via Metal that includes materials, shaders, geometry, a scene graph.
- Satin supports modern rendering techniques like physically based shading, shadows, tessellation and even ray tracing.
- Satin supports all modern Apple platforms.
- Satin is authored by Reza Ali.
- Read more about Satin’s origins on Reza’s portfolio site
Fabric
- A new node based editor for Satin that aims to replace gap in tooling that Quartz Composer left.
- A no code environment lets users build interactive compositions, rapidly iterate and experiment with high fidelity graphics.
- An interchange format for saving compositions.
- An embeddable sdk to load and render Fabric documents.
- Fabric is authored by Anton Marini.
Velvet
- A (very) experimental live coding environment written in swift inspired by processing - allowing one to live compile and hot load Satin code.
- Velvet is authored by Anton Marini.
The Fabric project aims to maintain and build on Satin’s foundations to bring back an era of high quality, performant and experimental software to the Apple platforms as first class citizens.
The Fabric Project is spearheaded by Anton Marini, and is looking to build a community of developers and users to help.