Libraries \ Processing 1.0

The following libraries are included with the Processing software. To add one to a project, select its name from the "Import Library..." option in the Sketch menu. These libraries are open source; the code is distributed with Processing.

Video

Interface to Apple's QuickTime for using a camera, playing movie files, and creating movies.

Network

Sending and receiving data via the Internet through the creation of simple clients and servers.

Serial

Supports sending data between Processing and external hardware via serial communication (RS-232).

PDF Export

Generates PDF files.

OpenGL

Support for exporting OpenGL accelerated sketches. Utilizes the JOGL library.

» Minim

Uses the JavaSound API to provide an easy-to-use audio library. A simple API while still providing a reasonable amount of flexibility for more advanced users.

DXF Export

Lines and triangles from P3D or OPENGL rendering modes can be sent directly to a DXF file.

» Arduino

Allows direct control of an Arduino board through Processing.

» Netscape.JavaScript

Methods for interfacing between Javascript and Java Applets exported from Processing.

Candy SVG Import

This library has been moved to the Processing core code as of version 149. To load SVG files, check out the reference for PShape(), loadShape(), and shape().

XML Import

This library has been moved to the Processing core as of version 149. To load XML data, check out the reference for XMLElement in the extended reference.

Contributed libraries must be downloaded separately and placed within the "libraries" folder of your Processing sketchbook. To find the Processing sketchbook location on your computer, open the Preferences window from the Processing application and look for the "Sketchbook location" item at the top. Copy the contributed library's folder into the "libraries" folder at this location. You will need to create the "libraries" folder if this is your first contributed library. Follow the links below for more information about each library.

Contributed libraries are developed, documented, and maintained by members of the Processing community. For feedback and support, please post to the Discourse, for development discussions post to Libraries, Tool Development. Instructions for creating your own library are on the Develop Processing site.

On 19 Jan 2009, libraries that had not yet been updated for Processing 1.0 were removed from this list.

3D
Animation
Compilations
Computer Vision
Data and Protocols

Geometry
Graphic Interface
Hardware Interface
Import / Export
Math

Simulation
Sound
Tools
Typography
Video

Sound

» p5_sc

by Daniel Jones
SuperCollider for Processing, an implementation of many core elements of SuperCollider's client-side language.

» Tactu5

by Alessandro Capozzo
Aids the creation of algorithmic music in real time. Consists of a set of classes focused in defining musical elements, utility classes, and an aggregator.

» Beads

by Ollie Bown
A realtime audio library for computer music and sonic art in realtime performance, installation artworks, web content and more.

» jm-Etude

by Daniel Dihardja
Provides functions to communicate with jMusic for easier music composition programming.

» Ess

by Krister Olsson
Sound library that allows sound sample data to be loaded or streamed, generated in real-time, manipulated, saved, analyzed or simply played back.

» Sonia

by Amit Pitaru
Audio library for sound playback and synthesis. Integrates Jsyn and requires a browser plugin for playback.

SoundCipher

by Andrew R. Brown
SoundCipher provides an easy interface for playing 'notes' on the JavaSound synthesizer and for playback of audio files.

Import \ Export

» OBJ Loader

by Tatsuya SAITO and Polymonkey
Loads .OBJ files into Processing, includes geometry and texture data.

» supercad

by Guillaume Labelle
Lets you export code to many 3d formats such as AutoCAD, Rhino, or SketchUP.

» sDrop

by Andreas Schlegel
A drag and drop implementation for Processing.

» unzipit

by Yonas Sandbaek
Reading Bytes, Strings, PFonts or PImages from a Zip-File.

» postToWeb

by Yonas Sandbaek
Upload files to a web server, supported formats are pdf, png, jpeg, gif and tiff.

» blinkenlights exporter

by ruin & wesen
This Processing library is designed to export sketches to the Blinkenlights BML file format

» fluid forms libs

Stephen Williams
Fluid Forms Libs aims to provide functionalities to processing that are often require when creating physical forms with code.

Tools

» proDOC

by Christian Riekoff
Generates documentation for Processing libraries from the source code. Requires inserting tags in the comments of the classes, fields, and methods.

» fullscreen api

by Hansi Raber
A library for fullscreen support, including dual screen.

» EclipseP5Exporter

by Daniel C. Howe
Mimics Processing's PDE export code in an Eclipse plugin for simple export of applications (for Mac OS X, Windows, & Linux) and applets, with and w'out OpenGL support, directly from the Eclipse interface.

» ImageAdjuster

by Dave Bollinger
Performs brightness, contrast, gamma and other such adjustments on images. Contains both high-level and low-level routines, and can be extended via user-defined transformations.

Hardware Interface

» Most Pixels Ever

by Daniel Shiffman and Chris Kairalla
Framework for spanning Processing sketches across multiple screens.

» NXTComm

by Jorge Cardoso
Allows control of the Lego Mindstorms NXT robots.

» proCONTROLL

by Christian Riekoff
Allows Processing to communicate with control devices like joysticks and joypads.

» Apple SMS

by Daniel Shiffman
Interface to the Apple Sudden Motion Sensor in PowerBooks (and MacBooks) since 2005.

» Apple Light Sensor

by Martin Rädlinger
Interface to the Light Sensor in MacBook Pro computers.

» Tablet

by Marcus Wendt
Drawing tablet library with access to your pressure, tilt and rotational data.

» JTablet

by Cellosoft
Graphics tablet access for Java applets (while this is not strictly a Processing library, it's extremely useful and easy to interface.)

Animation

» Shapetween

by Lee Byron and Golan Levin
An easy way to animate elements in a variety of ways.

» gifAnimation

by Patrick Meister
Plays and exports GIF animations.

» motion

by Yonas Sandbaek
Motion simplified.

Typography / Geometry

» NextText

by Elie Zananiri / Obx Labs
Assists in making dynamic and interactive text-based applications.

» Geomerative

by Ricard Marxer Pinon
Extends 2D geometry operations to facilitate generative geometry. Includes a TrueType font interpreter.

» Vertext

by Michael Chang
Enables drawing giant, detailed typography at high frame rates.

» point2line

by Carl Emil Carlsen
Basic tools for calculating geometry in two dimensions.

» MovingLetters

by Ilu
Typeface of moving, jittering letters.

Computer Vision / Video

» GSVideo

by Andres Colubri
Uses GStreamer as an alternative to QuickTime for movie playback and camera capture.

» BlobDetection

by v3ga
Performs the computer vision technique of finding "blobs" in an image.

» OpenCV

by Stephane Cousot and Douglas Edric Stanley
An OpenCV implementation for processing including blob detection, face recognition and more. This library is highly recommended.

» jmcvideo

by Angus Forbes
A simple wrapper for playing videos and grabbing video data for any of the formats that the JMC library supports.

» Face Detect (PC)

by Bryan Chung
Face detection library made with WebCamXtra and the openCV framework. PC only.

» TUIO Client

by Martin Kaltenbrunner
Client library for the simple creation of tangible interactive surfaces, receiving TUIO data from object and multi-touch trackers such as reacTIVision.

» JMyron (WebCamXtra)

by Josh Nimoy et al.
Camera library for motion detection, color tracking, glob distinction, and pixel addressing. Does not require QuickTime or WinVDIG for Windows machines.

» LibCV

by toxi
Grabs video frames from a camera using the Java Media Framework (JMF). Does not require QuickTime or WinVDIG for Windows machines.

» tuioZones

by jLyst
tuioZones provides a way to set zones within a multi-touch screen to respond to TUIO messages sent from a tracking application.

3D

» OCD

by Kristian Linn Damkjer
The Obsessive Camera Direction (OCD) library allows intuitive control and creation of Processing viewport Cameras.

» SuperPoint

by JohnG
Use large numbers of points and/or triangles in an OpenGL sketch.

» surfaceLib

by Andreas Köberle and Christian Riekoff
An easy way to create different 3D surfaces. Contains a library of surfaces and a class to extend.

» NPR

by Katrin Lang
A non-photorealistic renderer for 3D-Models in Processing.

» Gestalt

by Patrick Kochlik and Dennis Paul
Gestalt is an open structured environment, designed to prototype and develop OpenGL- and Java-based sketches and applications.

» PeasyCam

by Jonathan Feinberg
A mouse driven camera-control library for 3D sketches.

» Patchy

by Jonathan Feinberg
Renders 3D shapes known as "bicubic patches".

Simulation / Math

» Physics

by Jeffrey Traer Bernstein
Simple particle system physics engine. No collisions, just particles, springs, gravity & drag.

» MSAFluid

by Memo Akten
A library for solving real-time fluid dynamics simulations.

» AI Libraries

by Aaron Steed
A set of libraries to assist with artificial programming tasks such as genetic algorithms and the AStar algorithm.

» Cell Noise

by Carl-Johan Rosen
Explores cell noise (Worley noise), a pattern generation algorithms useful for animation.

» Eliza

by Andres Colubri
Implementation of the classes A.I. bot, Eliza.

» MatrixMath

by Francis Bitonti
Helpful code for matrix operations.

» Cellular Autonmata

by Francis Bitonti
Simplifies making cellular automata calculations.

» BoxWrap2D

by ewjordan
BoxWrap2D runs on top of JBox2D enabling simple integration of JBox2D with Processing.

Graphic Interface

» controlP5

by Andreas Schlegel
Custom GUI elements with the ability to show/hide and move while the program is running. This library is highly recommended.

» Interfascia

by Brendan Berg
Provides a toolkit of standard interface widgets like text fields, buttons, checkboxes, sliders, etc.

» G4P

by Peter Lager
GUI 4 processing provides a set of 2D GUI components such as buttons, sliders, labels, text boxes and more.

» ezGestures

by Elie Zananiri
A modular gesture recognition library.

Compilations

» unlekkerLib

by Marius Watz
Code for STL import and export, Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator, a TileSaver class for creating high-res images from OpenGL graphics by tiling the viewport, and for checking line intersection and collision with complex 2D polygons.

» toxiclibs

by toxi
Code for audio (JOAL), working with geometry, image filters, optimized math functions, and more.