Buddies and colleagues of mine told me years ago to get into Processing – to which I never did. Well, I finally hunkered down and began to fiddle with it. I should have done it years ago. Because it’s Java-based, there a plethora of libraries to make things which would otherwise be impossible to do in Flash extremely easy. For myself, the simple ability to output to an image sequence or Quicktime file sealed it for me. Below is the first sketch I did in Processing – comprised of a little more than 30 lines of code.
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Posted on 12 November, 2007 at 9:45am with 5 comments
Processing Beta Released
Posted on 13 July, 2007 at 2:05pm with no comments
Wow, two beta announcements in one week – this is most definitely a first. Processing just released its 1.0 Beta, which is quite a milestone for the visually-oriented programming language. I have always wanted to play with Processing but have not been able to find the time up to this point. I know that its performance as well as other powerful features open up the door for a myriad of possibilities which are still out of the realm of what Flash can do. One of the more notable features is the ability to export frames of code-driven animations/visualizations – allowing for image-sequence extrapolated video. There have been so many Actionscript-driven animations that I would have loved to convert to Quicktime or FLV which, up to this point, has not been possible natively within Flash.
I have seen processing allow some amazing things to be possible – I highly suggest checking it out if you have not up to this point. Meanwhile, I am trying to push myself to sit down and play with it as well.
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