Difference between revisions of "Processing.js/Presentation"

Revision as of 00:07, 23 April 2010

Matthew
What is Processing.js?
- a JS port of the visual media programming language P5
- PJS outputs the picture/animation/etc. to the new HTML5 canvas element
- cadre of Seneca students, joined by others through the Internet, have been working to complete the port since Fall 2009
Where did it come from?
- Processing
  - An open source Java-based visual media programming language
  - Developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas at MIT as an educational tool
  - Has since gone on to be used in industry and spread over the Internet
  - http://www.openprocessing.org/
  - Continues to spread: Fry employed by Google to bring P5 to the Android OS for mobile devices
  - P5 comes with its own development environment which can export "sketches" as a Java applet
  - Applets can be embedded in websites asd usual
  - A short demonstration of the PDE
PJS - what are we trying to accomplish

Daniel
talk about experience with PImage, having multiple opinions and ways of doing stuff
getting to talk to originators of the processing language and meet and talk to people from mozilla and community
demos/examples, color picker, thumbnail viewer, Andor's crayon sketch ?
difficulties. performance issues
how seneca open source courses helped me realize the power of community

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 ==Working with the Community==
+*'''Mickael'''
 *Demos
 **[http://processingjs.org/community PJS Community]