learn processing

I wrote a little app that uses 3d Boid flocking. Processing is great!

http://globalgamejam.org/games/aslongaswehaveeachother

i’ve just blogged my first Processing program http://www.jroller.com/jnicho02/entry/my_first_processing_program as well as trying it out on the Mac 24” iMac. Seems better than on the PC somehow.

Seems interesting, develop roots in open source

Processing is a quite remarkable and powerful programming language. While I keep dipping my toes in programming it, I don’t seem to have the time or a project to use it enough.
Now there are some books out about it and I just ordered Processing: A Programming Handbook to get me started back into this.

I’d been hearing about processing for a while but ever since seeing what Robert Hodgin had managed to do with some of his visualizations I’ve been hooked. Hopefully soon I can make time to sit down with this and put it through its paces.

Anyone else have any cool examples of processing at work?

Tonight I’m working on a simple object-tracking script. My laptop has a camera, and I want to get it to track the coordinates of a flashlight (or whatever else is the brightest point in the frame).

Update: this took about 5 minutes, because there’re already examples on the p5 homepage. Apparently the iSight cameras in Intel Macs all feed back blue video. The RGBA color data comes in a different order than p5 expects. I’m almost sure that it’s not simply flipped argb to bgra.

and believe it was out…it seems a good way to do interactive site and more… Ruby is perhaps not the same way, but i heard a lot about…since i use sketchup.

Processing, also affectionately known as P5 (since the domain name for the site is proce55ing.org) is a fantastic way to get into making graphics hacks, as most of the ugly threading & graphics setup stuff is done for you, you can focus on the task at hand. I’ve written a couple of P5 applets:

IFS

noiz

i’m a beginner

maybe i’ll like processing