Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, 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 an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.
Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Please help to release the next version!
Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Please visit our subdomains and sister projects:
http://dev.processing.org/
Includes bug tracking and instructions for building the code, downloading
the source, and creating libraries.
http://hardware.processing.org/
Arduino and Wiring are physical computing initiatives related to Processing.
http://mobile.processing.org
Mobile Processing is a programming environment for writing mobile phone software.
Check out recent Processing activity on the Web:
OpenProcessing Exhibition
Processing Blogs
Processing @ Vimeo
Processing @ del.icio.us
Processing @ Flickr
Processing @ YouTube
Processing @ Technorati
- 13 Dec 2008
- Software from Daniel Sauter and Mark Hereld added to the exhibition.
- 29 Nov 2008
- Processing 1.0.1 released. Download here.
- 24 Nov 2008
- Processing 1.0 released. Download here.
- 18 Nov 2008
- Software from Memo Akten, Owen Vallis, and Jordan Hochenbaum added to the exhibition.
- 18 Nov 2008
- Processing version 157 released. Download here.
- 10 Nov 2008
- Processing version 156 released. Download here.
- 5 Nov 2008
- Software from the Neil Banas added to the exhibition.
- 4 Nov 2008
- Processing version 155 released. Download here.
- 21 Oct 2008
- Processing versions 153 and 154 released. Download here.
- 19 Oct 2008
- Processing version 152 released. Download here.
- 17 Oct 2008
- Software from the Interface Design Team of FH Potsdam added to the exhibition.
- 17 Oct 2008
- Processing version 151 released. Download here.
- 15 Oct 2008
- Processing versions 149 and 150 released. Exciting and major changes within! Download here.
- 2 Oct 2008
- Software from Joao Martinho Moura and Jorge Sousa added to the exhibition.
- 18 Sep 2008
- Software from Jonas Jongejan and Ole Kristensen added to the exhibition.
- 2 Sep 2008
- Software from Ebru Kurbak & Mahir M. Yavuz added to the exhibition.
- 19 Aug 2008
- Processing version 148 released. Download here.
- 18 Aug 2008
- Processing version 147 released. Support for the Tools menu. Download here.
- 16 Aug 2008
- Software from Peter Cho added to the exhibition.
- 16 Aug 2008
- Processing version 146 released. It's one better than 145. Download here.
- 15 Aug 2008
- Processing version 145 released. This release contains several changes to fix issues related to timing in sketches. The animation loop has been tuned and several bugs have been ironed out. Download here.
- 9 Aug 2008
- Processing version 144 released. Download here.
- 31 Jul 2008
- Software from David Muth added to the exhibition.
- 28 Jul 2008
- Processing version 143 released. Download here.
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The Emergence Project
by Daniel Sauter, Mark Hereld
Roots
by Memo Akten, Owen Vallis, Jordan Hochenbaum
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Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art By Ira Greenberg |
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Learning Processing By Daniel Shiffman |
More books related to Processing are included on the Books page.
Wiring
Processing Mobile
Processing.js
Ruby-Processing
Gaming, Graphics, and Video
Blender
Isadora
Context Free
Design By Numbers
DrawBot
GEM
Irrlicht
JBox2D
Jitter
NodeBox
Ogre
openFrameworks
Pygame
Scriptographer
Shoes
VVVV
Sound and Music
ChucK
Pure Data (PD)
SuperCollider
Electronics and Fabrication
Fab@Home
Gainer
MAKE Controller
Reactable
RepRap
Mobile Devices
OpenMoko
For the Younger Ones
Alice
Scratch
Hackety Hack
For more FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) for artists and designers, visit artsoftware.org