Rapid animation prototyping with Processing

[Tony]

More blog spam for people other than the 3 subscribers that I have.

http://compsci.ca/blog/rapid-animation-prototyping-with-processing/

Quote:

"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain."

Pretty sweet.

It is ultimately a software sketchbook, where I can sketch out interactive animations or visualizations (fractals and what not) redicilously easy.

Oh, and it all renders as a Java applet for an easy upload and cross-platform sharing.

[zylum]

yeah, proce55ing has been around for quite a while now. i believe it was developed at MIT no? i played around with it ages ago. the 3d library is also quite easy to use. if i recall, it uses jogl or something like that. one of the most amazing examples on their website was this:

http://processing.org/learning/examples/fluid.html

has anyone tried this on linux yet? i tried to run it on redhat last year at school but the graphics ended up *really* slow. so slow that you had to shrink the applet size to about 100x100 to make it even run.

[Tony]

yeah, it's been out for a while.. though it just had yet another version release (still in BETA) and that's when I've heard of it

I think I've tried running that fluid applet on my Mac, but it kind of just stood there, so I shrugged and moved on to the next example. I haven't tried resizing it.