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Love on
Processing
and Summer
workshop
with its
founder
Casey Reas
by Will Kotheimer
As Matt explained, processing gives the user an ability to organize data from music, video,
or statistics, or just about any other data set, and present it as visually meaningful. It allows
creation of drawing applications from coordinates of mouse-x and mouse y, clicks, and un-
clicks, like most other languages. But it seems easier, and like flash is primarily focused on
its interactive quality. without video, because most of them are cre-
ated in real time. But still its easier to show a
“I see processing as the obvious door to get picture than explain this in some cases.
into the programming mindset, especially A progam called “23” was a visualization in-
when dealing with data.” Matthew said. Matt volving a video feed.. He pointed his webcam
gave a run down of his five-day experience at us and then was able to manipulate the way
at the Anderson ranch. Day 1 began with a we looked by changing variables in the pro-
drawing program, and Day 2 focused on user gram. “ I think its five different filters or types
input. From there the course diverged into of processes that is used to interpret the we-
projects where the students made their own bcam. It’s drawing degrees of a circle for the
brightness values,” he said, “areas that
are lighter are a quarter of a circle. And
areas that are darker are whole circles
which gives it more pigment.”