Processing
Posted in Software
Processing is a programming language geared towards visual artists, but it comes in handy for a lot of other purposes as well. Here are some of its finer points:
- Open source
- Integrated IDE (see below)
- Lots of demos and tutorials online
- Several useful libraries available (e.g., OpenGL, video, network)
- Cross platform (it’s Java-based)
Most of all, it’s very quick to program something graphical up. So I’ve used it to make little image/movie widgets, programmatically generate complex PostScript files that I then edit with Illustrator, and test visual stimuli. Processing
[…] wasn’t very smooth either. I’ve seen much better results with Java and HTML5. I think Processing is probably a better path towards this sort of thing. And that is free and outputs […]
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