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Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Please help to release the next version!

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.


Please visit our subdomains and sister projects:

http://dev.processing.org/
Information about contributing code and expertise to the Processing software. Includes bug tracking and instructions for building the code, downloading the source, and creating libraries.

http://hardware.processing.org/
Arduino, Wiring, and Fritzing are physical computing initiatives related to Processing.

http://mobile.processing.org
Mobile Processing is a programming environment and library for writing mobile phone software.


Check out recent Processing action on the Web:

Processing Blogs
Processing @ Vimeo
Processing @ Flickr
Processing @ del.icio.us
Processing @ YouTube
Processing @ Technorati

Updates

4 May 2008
Software from Steph Thirion added to the exhibition.
20 Apr 2008
New and updated serial communication code from Tom Igoe added to the library examples.
20 Apr 2008
Thanks to the hard work of Florian Jenett, Tom Carden, and Karsten Schmidt, Processing Hacks is now a part of the Proessing website.
19 Apr 2008
Software from Burak Arikan added to the exhibition.
29 Mar 2008
Fourteen new libraries added to the contributed libraries.
26 Mar 2008
Software from Danny Franzreb (Taobot) added to the exhibition.
23 Feb 2008
Software from Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth added to the exhibition.
2 Feb 2008
Software from Robert Hodgin added to the exhibition.
7 Jan 2008
Software from Firstborn and the team of Philipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller added to the exhibition.
1 Dec 2007
Software from the Yahoo! Design Innovation Team added to the exhibition.
24 Nov 2007
Five new libraries added to the contributed libraries: FaceDetect by Jaegon Lee, P5SunFlow by Mark Chadwick, p5_sc (SuperCollider) by Daniel Jones, Eliza by Andres Colubri, and Broadcaster by Chandler McWilliams.
24 Nov 2007
Software from Aaron Koblin added to the exhibition.

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Exhibition

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Cascade on Wheels
by Steph Thirion et al.
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MYPOCKET
by Burak Arikan

Books

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Artists and Designers Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art
   
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
By Casey Reas
and Ben Fry
Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art
By Ira Greenberg
   
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Artists and Designers Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Artists and Designers
   
Visualizing Data
By Ben Fry
Making Things Talk
By Tom Igoe

More books related to Processing are included on the Books page.

Affiliations

UCLA Design | Media Arts
Massuchusetts Institute of Technology
Media Temple

Sister Projects

Processing Mobile
Wiring
Arduino
Fritzing

Related Initiatives

Gaming, Graphics, and Video
Blender
Isadora
Context Free
Design By Numbers
DrawBot
GEM
Irrlicht
Jitter
NodeBox
Ogre
openFrameworks
Scriptographer
VVVV

Sound and Music
ChucK
Pure Data (PD)
SuperCollider

Electronics and Fabrication
Fab@Home
Gainer
Reactable
RepRap

For more FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) for artists and designers, visit artsoftware.org