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
- 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.
- 17 Jul 2008
- Software from lia added to the exhibition.
- 26 Jun 2008
- Software from John Houck added to the exhibition.
- 16 Jun 2008
- Processing version 142 released to fix compiler error messages. Download here.
- 11 Jun 2008
- Software from Dan Shiffman's students at NYU's ITP added to the exhibition.
- 11 Jun 2008
- Processing version 141 adds UTF-8 encoding to the text editor and more. Download here.
- 10 Jun 2008
- Processing version 140 removes Jikes and replaces it with Javac and more. Download here.
- 4 Jun 2008
- Processing version 139 is ready. Download here.
- 31 May 2008
- Processing version 138 is now available. Download here. It's on the road to stability again.
- 30 May 2008
- Processing version 137 is released! Download here. Expect more on the way as the debugging continues.
- 29 May 2008
- Processing version 136 is ready. Be sure to read the release notes, there are a number of significant internal changes. Download here.
- 28 May 2008
- Software from Nervous System (Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg) added to the exhibition.
- 18 May 2008
- Software from the SENSEable City Lab added to the exhibition.
- 4 May 2008
- Software from Steph Thirion added to the exhibition.
- 20 Apr 2008
- New and updated serial communication code from Tom Igoe added to the library examples.
- 20 Apr 2008
- Thanks to the hard work of Florian Jenett, Tom Carden, and Karsten Schmidt, Processing Hacks is now a part of the Processing website.
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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