Any designers here messed around with proce55ing? Kinda like Flash...but better?

[Entity]

I did a search and couldn't find anything. Just wondering if anyone here has fooled around with it; it seems pretty cool, but I don't have much of a knack for stuff like this.

Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.

The software is currently in a prerelease stage, but bug fixes are being made as we head toward a more complete "1.0" release. Processing will be free to download and available for Mac, PC, and Linux.

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It is currently developed in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and by a group of distributed developers across the Net.

Processing provides three different modes of programming?each one more structurally complex than the previous. In the most basic mode, programs are single line commands for drawing primitive shapes to the screen. In the most complex mode, Java code may be written within the environment. The intermediate mode allows for the creation of dynamic software in a hybrid procedural/object-oriented structure. It strives to achieve a balance between features and clarity, which encourages the experimentation process and reduces the learning curve.

Seems really cool.
http://www.proce55ing.net

Rob

 

[Entity]

No one? C'mon.

Rob

 

[Goosemaster]

sweet

 

[phatj]

How is that even remotely close to the capabilities of macromedia flash?

 

[TommyVercetti]

Don't mean to be a hater, but it uses Java applets. Java applets are sloooow in my experience and whenever I see them, I just close that window.

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: phatj
How is that even remotely close to the capabilities of macromedia flash?

From what I had read (in Wired, no less; I'm not well versed enough to fully understand this), it allows for many of the capabilities of Flash, but doesn't choke as easily on large-data projects. Regardless, the "but better?" in my title was merely meant to get attention and to give a general "category" to what I was talking about. It certainly isn't better at this current stage; I was just echoing what Wired said about it. I was hoping to hear AT'ers opinions on it...

http://www.proce55ing.net/reference/compare/actionscript.html

It's relatively new, so I don't think people have really explored it much yet.

Rob

 

[Grey]

But.. its java? :disgust:

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: phatj
How is that even remotely close to the capabilities of macromedia flash?

From what I had read (in Wired, no less; I'm not well versed enough to fully understand this), it allows for many of the capabilities of Flash, but doesn't choke as easily on large-data projects. Regardless, the "but better?" in my title was merely meant to get attention and to give a general "category" to what I was talking about. It certainly isn't better at this current stage; I was just echoing what Wired said about it. I was hoping to hear AT'ers opinions on it...

http://www.proce55ing.net/reference/compare/actionscript.html

It's relatively new, so I don't think people have really explored it much yet.

Rob

So if it's in Java, that means it has the full funtionality of a programming language available to it? Is Flash a very funtional language, or is it very limited?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
sweet

I tried

 

[RossMAN]

I read about this also in my free Wired magazine, looks like it holds a lot of promise.

 

[phatj]

yea it just seems like any other java applets I've run across