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Processing.org Exhibition now curated by FV News

2010-08-31 18:53
From September 2010, myself with CreativeApplications.Net will be the curator of the online exhibition of projects on Processing.org. It 8217;s a great privilege and pleasure to contribute to the almost 10 year old open source project initiated byВ Ben Fry andВ Casey Reas. Processing has won hearts and minds of many artists, researchers, designers and architects over the years and still remains one of the most used creative code programming environments. 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. Tens of thousands of companies, artists, designers, architects, and researchers use Processing to create an incredibly diverse range of projects. CAN has postedВ some of these but processing.org/exhibition/ still remains an archive of some of the most amazing Processing projects out there. It 8217;s also easy to get the quick sense of how Processing has changed over the years by looking at the exhibition, from Applets to large installations. The original idea was simple; to show what Processing can do. A priority in recent years has been to show the range of what is possible (fabrication, installation, rendered video) in addition to realtime graphics - Casey writes.В From this month very few carefully selected projects shown on CAN will make their way to the exhibition. We kick things off with the wonderfulВ Understanding Shakespeare by Stephan Thiel. In case you missed it, see this post on CAN. Understanding Shakespeare is an attempt toВ create a new visual understanding of the work by analysing most frequently used words for each character. Using Processing, a scene is represented by a block of text and scaled relatively according to its number of words. Characters are ordered by appearance from left to right throughout the play. The major characterв s speeches are highlighted to illustrate their amounts of spoken words as compared to the rest of the play...more Additionally to the above, Stephan and two fellow designers are trying to give something back to the Processing community. They are providing teaching materials available atВ www.creativecoding.org which they use at various german universities. So far, these have developed into a well known resource among german designers and media artists and the team hopes to translate them to english soon. We leave you with 10 of the 144 projects that have made their way to the Processing exhibition, starting with Valence by Ben Fry (2002)В and endingВ One Perfect Cube by Florian Jenett (2010).В See all at processing.org/exhibition/ Processing.org Exhibition now curated by FV News is a post from: CreativeApplications.Net Follow us on Twitter - Facebook - Flickr - Vimeo Related Posts: Getting Started with Processing Books + ContestBegotten iPhone, Mobilizing, c++ Sync/Lost Processing Processing is Coming to Android Processing, Android Toxiclibs Processing The HyperC...
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