Processing: programming for the media arts

Reas, Casey; Fry, Ben

doi:10.1007/s00146-006-0050-9

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“…We wrote our authoring tool in Java as an extension of the open source Processing IDE [32]. However, the principles behind our algorithms are not tied to any particular language or editor.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Authoring multi-stage code examples with editable code histories

Ginosar

Pombo

Agrawala

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Multi-stage code examples present multiple versions of a program where each stage increases the overall complexity of the code. In order to acquire strategies of program construction using a new language or API, programmers consult multistage code examples in books, tutorials and online videos. Authoring multi-stage code examples is currently a tedious process, as it involves keeping several stages of code synchronized in the face of edits and error corrections. We document these difficulties with a formative study examining how programmers author multi-stage code examples. We then present an IDE extension that helps authors create multi-stage code examples by propagating changes (insertions, deletions and modifications) to multiple saved versions of their code. Our system adapts revision control algorithms to the specific task of evolving example code. An informal evaluation finds that taking snapshots of a program as it is being developed and editing these snapshots in hindsight help users in creating multi-stage code examples.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…We asked each participant to produce a multi-stage code example that describes how to program the classic Pong game in Processing, a Java variant [32]. We chose Processing as the language of our study for several reasons.…”

Section: Formative Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Authoring multi-stage code examples with editable code histories

Ginosar

Pombo

Agrawala

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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“…I developed software scripts to generate Zoopraxiscope picture-discs, using the software framework Processing (Reas & Fry, 2006). These scripts generate minimalistic animations of simple shapes, such as expanding hexagons, rotating and expanding rectangles, or triangles moving in circles.…”

Section: Software Scripts For Creating Zoopraxiscope Picture-discsmentioning

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ZoOHPraxiscope, Re-Inventing the Zoopraxiscope with an Overhead Projector

Faubel

2015

CITAR Journal

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The ZoOHPraxiscope is a modified overhead projector that can be used to show cinematographic animations. It allows blending and mixing of animated shadow play with cinematographic animation. Similar to the Zoopraxiscope that was developed by the photographer Eadweard Muybridge in the 19th century, the ZoOHPraxiscope combines a rotating picture disc with a Laterna Magica and shutter mechanism. The mechanical shutter of the original device is replaced by a high-power LED that can be turned on and off at the fraction of a second. The overhead projector acts as Laterna Magica. This new device is used as a performance instrument to combine sound, vision, shadow play and animation.

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“…In order to respond to the need of teaching programming to artists and designers, as well as to integrate code-based practices into their artistic production, several open-source programming frameworks specifically geared towards this audience have been developed during the past decade (Orr, 2009), such as Processing (Processing Foundation I), OpenFrameworks (OF) (OF community), and Cinder (Bell et al), and gave rise to a practice often identified as "creative coding". The Processing project, conceived in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry at the MIT Media Lab, is among the earliest of such initiatives (Reas and Fry, 2006) and perhaps the one with the strongest emphasis on the pedagogical aspects and the explicit goal to "increase computer literacy within the design and visual arts, and visual literacy within technology and engineering" (Reas and Fry, 2014).…”

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Shader Programming for Computational Arts and Design - A Comparison between Creative Coding Frameworks

Gómez

Colubri

Charalambos

2016

Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

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The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Abstract:We describe an Application Program Interface (API) that facilitates the use of GLSL shaders in computational design, interactive arts, and data visualization. This API was first introduced in the version 2.0 of Processing, a programming language and environment widely used for teaching and production in the context of media arts and design, and has been recently completed in the 3.0 release. It aims to incorporate low-level shading programming into code-based design, by integrating traditional models of graphics programming with more expressive approaches afforded by the OpenGL pipeline on modern GPUs. We contrast Processing's shader API with similar interfaces available in other frameworks used in computational arts and design, in order to better understand its advantages and shortcomings.

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Processing: programming for the media arts

Cited by 147 publications

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Authoring multi-stage code examples with editable code histories

Authoring multi-stage code examples with editable code histories

ZoOHPraxiscope, Re-Inventing the Zoopraxiscope with an Overhead Projector

Shader Programming for Computational Arts and Design - A Comparison between Creative Coding Frameworks

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