When musicians create a piece of music, they call it a composition. When you create something in Vuo, that’s also called a composition.
In the Quick Start section, you saw how to create a composition that displays a moving twirly stripy design. That’s one type of Vuo composition — an animation that displays in a window. Vuo can be used to create much more complex and interesting animations. It can also be used to create many other types of compositions. A composition could be a game. It could be an art installation. It could be a controller for stage lighting. It could be digital signage. It could be a plug-in for other software. Those are just some examples of what a composition could be.
A composition is a program whose source code is a visual representation of the program's data flow. It's compiled and linked to create an application or library.
One thing that all compositions have in common is the process of creating them in Vuo. You start with either a new canvas or an existing composition, and you pick out building blocks and connect them to make many smaller pieces work together as a larger whole.
Another thing that all compositions have in common is the way that they run. When you click the Run button, all of those building blocks and connections that you laid out as a blueprint get turned into a running application.