Here are the most common data types in Vuo:
Name | Examples | Description |
---|---|---|
Integer | -5; 0; 103 | A positive or negative whole number |
Real | -1.2; 0.0; 33.333 | A positive or negative decimal number |
Text | Thank you! | A sequence of characters |
Boolean | true; false | “Yes” (true) or “no” (false) |
2D Point | (0.1, -1.5) | A position in 2-dimensional space |
3D Point | (0.1, -1.5, 0.8) | A position in 3-dimensional space |
4D Point | (0.1, -1.5, 0.8, 1.0) | A position in 4-dimensional space |
Color | A combination of hue, saturation, and lightness | |
Image | A rectangular grid of pixels | |
Layer | A 2D shape or image that can be stacked with others | |
Scene Object | A 3D shape that can be placed with others in a scene |
If your computer is configured to use a comma instead of a period for the decimal mark (
), then Vuo displays numerical types accordingly.Vuo has dozens of other data types, many of them specific to certain tasks (such as processing audio or receiving keyboard input). You’ll learn about those data types in the process of learning how to perform the tasks.
You can see which data type a port has by clicking on the port to open its port popover.
When you start dragging a cable from a port, Vuo shows you which ports you can connect the other end of the cable to — ports that have a compatible data type — by fading out all other ports. Ports that remain opaque have the same data type as the original port. Ports that are slightly faded have a data type that is different but related, so it’s possible to convert from one data type to the other.