Processing
May 13, 2005
Media Lab alums Ben Fry and Casey Reas have introduced Processing 1.0, an open source graphical computing envionrment "developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain."
The beta release features prototype projects by participants from UCLA, NYU, Yale, and Carnegie Mellon, among others. A few that tickled my bippy:
Thinking Machine
Martin Wattenberg's machine chess environment lets users visualize the computer's decision-making process, and displays the changing "spheres of influence" for each piece on the table.
Cinema Redux
An exploration of visualizing movies as a contact sheet-style image, condensing all the frames down to a single still image.
Acoustic Cartography
An "acoustic camera" for visualizing sonic events.
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