Processing on FLOSS Weekly

posted Mon 19 Jan 2009 by Michael Galloy under Visualization

Another great interview on FLOSS Weekly, this time interviewing Ben Fry and Casey Reas about Processing. Also, I listened to, but forgot to mention, the interview of David Buck and Chris Cason of POV-Ray last February.

By the way, here is a fairly simple visualization I recently did as an exercise of using Processing.js, a port of Processing to JavaScript. I created the background image in IDL and then used Processing.js to give the interactive annotations. I just bought “Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment” by Ben Fry and hope to do more with it in the future.

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5 Responses to “Processing on FLOSS Weekly”

Randal L. Schwartz says:
January 19th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Thanks (again?) for pointing at FLOSS Weekly. If you have suggestions for future guests, or wanna see what’s coming up, see our list linked from http://twit.tv/floss – thanks!
Vince says:
January 20th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Thanks for the tip, Mike – I’ll definitely have to listen to this one, too.
Unfortunately I get an error when I try to load your “immigration” demo.
Thanks again,
Vince
Michael Galloy says:
January 20th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@Vince What browser are you using?
Vince says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Works in Firefox 3 – Doesn’t work in IE6 [corporate standard 8^( ]
Michael Galloy says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Yes, Processing.js uses the Canvas element and IE6 doesn’t support it.

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Processing on FLOSS Weekly

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