Processing the Possibilities
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008I’ve spoken about processing.js by John Resig before. This time I’m talking about Alistair MacDonald. He was one of the two or three members of the processing.js google group when I joined a week ago. Last I looked it was up to 45 which is good news. After some discussion about the limitations and strengths of using processing as part of a web interface or design between himself and John I chipped in an idea I’d had but was struggling to realise.
I wanted to create a graphic equaliser using processing and have it respond to mouse movements. Al quite liked the idea and made it happen. (I’d like to buy you a beer or two Al, if you’re ever near Burnley or Liverpool let me know).
That design is precisely what you can see here (unless I’ve redesigned by now). I hope to create a few alternatives using the code for judging the speed of the mouse movement and release them as backgrounds along with this wordpress theme some time in the near future.
In the meantime I’ll be reading through the docs and examples which you can find on github and Al’s collection of processing experiments.
Oh, also - New Design!