Wednesday 3 August 2011

Processing

Processing is a really impressive little app. It strips everything down to the bare minimum and provides a super easy to use IDE (development environment). And by making it graphic ornamented, all it takes is a few lines of code to make something that looks really quite nice.

But the real hero is variables. Just replace a few values with them, use a loop and suddenly you have something pretty, with hardly any work to boot!

In this example variables are used to connect shapes together, and transparency to gradually change colour. This could be taken far further by linking elements such as colour, position, shape and size with variables.

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