Processing
My math lecturer, Dr. Matthew Conroy, builds small interactive applications that he posts on the course website for us to use. They’re neat and very visually-based, but he writes them using a programming code built on Java called Processing:
From http://www.sabin-jones.com/arselectronica.html - visit (and visit Processing.org) for many cool applications of Processing
I’ve been interested in getting more into writing applications in this format, so I went to talk to him a bit in his office hours. We were chatting about the various applications that Processing has, and he mentioned how it’s really “smart” and great for use in audio-visual interaction as well as graphics and artwork. He said that people will even set up interactive displays where a computer is both projecting an image as well as reading in user responses and calculating interactions.
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I exclaimed how this is exactly the sort of thing I’ll be looking into while in Amsterdam, and he confirmed that he has indeed seen quite a good body of contributions coming from people from Amsterdam, that that area of the world is really on the forefront of applications like this.
Aside from being a really weird, cool, unexpected coincidence, this has the great benefit that were Greg and I to attempt an instillation while in Amsterdam, we have a jumping-off point of what sort of technology to use!
I’ll definitely be looking into Processing and the applications that it has as we finish up finals and enter the summer. This could be neat!
