If anybody is curious about Processing, you might be interested in my
abandonedart.org site - http://abandonedart.org/ - where I publish a new
Processing experiment every Friday.
I heartily recommend Processing - it's very easy to pick up and a great way
of sketching out ideas, even for non-programmers. The source code for all my
experiments is on the site - you can copy/paste any of these scripts into
the Processing environment to instantly replicate my results. And then
improve on them ...
Matt
On 25/11/08 09:36, "Paul Brown" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We've just posted Processing 1.0 at http://processing.org/download.
> We're so excited about it, we even took time to write a press release.
>
> CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and LOS ANGELES, Calif. - November 24, 2008 - The
> Processing project today announced the immediate availability of the
> Processing 1.0 product family, the highly anticipated release of
> industry-leading design and development software for virtually every
> creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow
> efficiency - and packed with hundreds of innovative, time-saving
> features - the new Processing 1.0 product line advances the creative
> process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile.
>
> Whups! That's not the right one. Here we go:
>
> Today, on November 24, 2008, we launch the 1.0 version of the
> Processing software. Processing is a programming language, development
> environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted
> software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve
> as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer
> programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into
> a tool for creating finished professional work as well.
>
> Processing is a free, open source alternative to proprietary software
> tools with expensive licenses, making it accessible to schools and
> individual students. Its open source status encourages the community
> participation and collaboration that is vital to Processing's growth.
> Contributors share programs, contribute code, answer questions in the
> discussion forum, and build libraries to extend the possibilities of
> the software. The Processing community has written over seventy
> libraries to facilitate computer vision, data visualization, music,
> networking, and electronics.
>
> Students at hundreds of schools around the world use Processing for
> classes ranging from middle school math education to undergraduate
> programming courses to graduate fine arts studios.
>
> + At New York University's graduate ITP program, Processing is taught
> alongside its sister project Arduino and PHP as part of the foundation
> course for 100 incoming students each year.
>
> + At UCLA, undergraduates in the Design | Media Arts program use
> Processing to learn the concepts and skills needed to imagine the next
> generation of web sites and video games.
>
> + At Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska and the Phoenix Country Day
> School in Arizona, middle school teachers are experimenting with
> Processing to supplement traditional algebra and geometry classes.
>
> Tens of thousands of companies, artists, designers, architects, and
> researchers use Processing to create an incredibly diverse range of
> projects.
>
> + Design firms such as Motion Theory provide motion graphics created
> with Processing for the TV commercials of companies like Nike,
> Budweiser, and Hewlett-Packard.
>
> + Bands such as R.E.M., Radiohead, and Modest Mouse have featured
> animation created with Processing in their music videos.
>
> + Publications such as the journal Nature, the New York Times, Seed,
> and Communications of the ACM have commissioned information graphics
> created with Processing.
>
> + The artist group HeHe used Processing to produce their award-winning
> Nuage Vert installation, a large-scale public visualization of
> pollution levels in Helsinki.
>
> + The University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab used Processing
> to create a visualization of a coastal marine ecosystem as a part of
> the NSF RISE project.
>
> + The Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies at Miami
> University uses Processing to build visualization tools and analyze
> text for digital humanities research.
>
> The Processing software runs on the Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux
> platforms. With the click of a button, it exports applets for the Web
> or standalone applications for Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux. Graphics
> from Processing programs may also be exported as PDF, DXF, or TIFF
> files and many other file formats. Future Processing releases will
> focus on faster 3D graphics, better video playback and capture, and
> enhancing the development environment. Some experimental versions of
> Processing have been adapted to other languages such as JavaScript,
> ActionScript, Ruby, Python, and Scala; other adaptations bring
> Processing to platforms like the OpenMoko, iPhone, and OLPC XO-1.
>
> Processing was founded by Ben Fry and Casey Reas in 2001 while both
> were John Maeda's students at the MIT Media Lab. Further development
> has taken place at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Carnegie
> Mellon University, and the UCLA, where Reas is chair of the Department
> of Design | Media Arts. Miami University, Oblong Industries, and the
> Rockefeller Foundation have generously contributed funding to the
> project.
>
> The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (a Smithsonian Institution)
> included Processing in its National Design Triennial. Works created
> with Processing were featured prominently in the Design and the
> Elastic Mind show at the Museum of Modern Art. Numerous design
> magazines, including Print, Eye, and Creativity, have highlighted the
> software.
>
> For their work on Processing, Fry and Reas received the 2008 Muriel
> Cooper Prize from the Design Management Institute. The Processing
> community was awarded the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award
> and the 2005 Interactive Design Prize from the Tokyo Type Director's
> Club.
>
> The Processing website (www.processing.org) includes tutorials,
> exhibitions, interviews, a complete reference, and hundreds of
> software examples. The Discourse forum hosts continuous community
> discussions and dialog with the developers.
>
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