tirsdag 25. november 2008

Seven Years Later, Proce55ing Leaves Beta!

Shared by Helge
Mye fantastisk som er laget med Processing allerede, og endelig er versjon 1.0 her! Enklere måte å komme i gang med avansert datagrafikk programmering finnes nok neppe. :)

That's right. 1.0.

Processing.org: The most important aspect of this release is its stability. However, we have added many new features during the last few months. They include a new optimized 2D graphics engine, better integration for working with vector files, and the ability to write tools to enhance the development environment.

Metamorphosis by Glen Marshall

What a great year for Processing. It's really poised to supplant Flash as the center of the art hacking kingdom and has influenced an avalanche of colorful software. Particularly when you think of the really successful offshoots that have surrounded it, such as Processing.js and Arduino.

As it's picked up speed, it's left in its wake a fine pile of code-made clothing, music videos, theatrics and flippant things aplenty. For pleasure and for break time.

Daniel Shiffman: 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.

As Dan's post goes into, it's not just the popularity of Processing that is so exciting. It's one thing for a language to find popularity in the cubicles and server rooms. This is a toolkit that is fighting for legitimacy in classrooms, in the editing rooms, on the dance floors and in basements.

It's almost like Processing is paving a new road for creative hackers that don't go for point-and-click and Flash's deeply nested timeline. Who are, let's just say, smarter than that. And, I mean, beyond that, Processing is open source. You can extend it into new territory.

Huge congratulations to Ben Fry, Casey Reas and the rest of the people who made this happen.


By the way, I've also heard that Dan Shiffman's new book is sensational. I'm sorry to say that Ira Greenberg's book troubled me with its extreme length and textbook pace. Maybe it works okay in a class room. I've always found the online reference to be very good.

Anyone out there actually read Learning Processing, yet?



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