Processing 1.0

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. The project is currently improved and maintained by a small team of volunteers.

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

8 Jun 2009: Processing 1.0.5 released. Download here.
8 Jun 2009: Software from Dimitre Lima added to the exhibition.
31 May 2009: Processing 1.0.4 released. Download here.
14 May 2009: Software from Marcus Wendt, Vera-Maria Glahn, and Arran Poole added to the exhibition.
26 Apr 2009: Interview with Aaron Koblin added to the features.
26 Apr 2009: Software from Aeolab added to the exhibition.
2 Apr 2009: Software from Josh Nimoy added to the exhibition.
21 Mar 2009: Software from Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang added to the exhibition.
20 Mar 2009: Five new libraries added to Contributions: superPoint by JohnG, SoundCipher by Andrew R. Brown, fluid forms libs by Stephen Williams, fullscreen api by Hansi Raber, BoxWrap2D by ewjordan.
26 Feb 2009: Software from Michael Hansmeyer added to the exhibition.
24 Feb 2009: Processing 1.0.3 released. Download here.
21 Feb 2009: Processing 1.0.2 released. Download here.
13 Feb 2009: Processing Monsters software, curated by Lukas Vojir, added to the exhibition.
13 Feb 2009: Seven new libraries added to Contributions: openCV by Stephane Cousot and Douglas Edric Stanley, motion and unzipit by Yonas Sandbaek, romeFeeder by Bruno Nadeau, colorlib by Andreas Koeberle and Jan VanTomme, supercad by Guillaume Labelle, jmcvideo by Angus Forbes, ical4p by Nikolaus Gradwohl.
20 Jan 2009: Four new libraries added to Contributions: themidibus by Severin Smith, sDrop by Andreas Schlegel, peasycam and patchy by Jonathan Feinberg.
19 Jan 2009: New tutorials for Objects and 2D Arrays.
19 Jan 2009: Software from Dan Shiffman's students at NYU's ITP added to the exhibition.
19 Jan 2009: Two new libraries added to Contributions: XlsReader by Florian Jenett, point2line by Carl Emil Carlsen. Contributed libraries not yet updated for Processing 1.0 were removed from the list.
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.