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DAY 129

ARTISTIC ODDITIES

Processing

THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR ARTISTS

What do you get when you cross a computer programmer with an artist? A Computist? An Artogrammer? There may not be a term for it yet, but a medium suited for this person already exists.

Processing (at www.processing.org) is a programming language tailored to communities centered around electronic art and design. Created originally to be a digital sketchbook, Processing quickly morphed into a tool capable of producing professional-level output and has been used to create animations and visualizations for famous bands, scientific journals, professional ...

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