Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.

Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. To contribute to the project's development, please visit dev.processing.org/, which includes bug tracking and instructions for building the code, downloading the source, and creating libraries and tools.

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.

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18 Oct 2009

Processing 1.0.8 released.

18 Oct 2009

Software from Sabin+Jones LabStudio added to the exhibition.

2 Oct 2009

Software from Zum Kuckuck added to the exhibition.

4 Sep 2009

Processing 1.0.7 released.

3 Sep 2009

Software from Ben Hemmendinger added to the exhibition.

24 Aug 2009

Nine new libraries added to Contributions: ttslib by Nikolaus Gradwohl, MRI3DS and ObjImport by Victor Martins, integralhistogram by Giovanni Tarducci and Alessio Barducci, P-SURF by Claudio Fantacci and Alessandro Martini, CbModel by Federico Bartoli, UnwrappingLib by Martin Fuchs, Voltron by Joseph Scully, Arduino Library by David A. Mellis.

19 Aug 2009

Software from Tom Gerhardt added to the exhibition.

12 Aug 2009

Processing 1.0.6 released.Download here.

30 Jul 2009

Software from MOS (Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, William Macfarlane) added to the exhibition. This is the one hundred and twenty-fourth project added to the exhibition. Have a look at the history.

13 Jul 2009

Terre Natale (Exits 2) software added to the exhibition.

8 Jun 2009

Processing 1.0.5 released. Download here.

8 Jun 2009

Software from Dimitre Lima added to the exhibition.

31 May 2009

Processing 1.0.4 released. Download here.

14 May 2009

Software from Marcus Wendt, Vera-Maria Glahn, and Arran Poole added to the exhibition.

26 Apr 2009

Interview with Aaron Koblin added to the features.

26 Apr 2009

Software from Aeolab added to the exhibition.

2 Apr 2009

Software from Josh Nimoy added to the exhibition.

21 Mar 2009

Software from Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang added to the exhibition.

20 Mar 2009

Five new libraries added to Contributions: superPoint by JohnG, SoundCipher by Andrew R. Brown, fluid forms libs by Stephen Williams, fullscreen api by Hansi Raber, BoxWrap2D by ewjordan.

26 Feb 2009

Software from Michael Hansmeyer added to the exhibition.

24 Feb 2009

Processing 1.0.3 released. Download here.

21 Feb 2009

Processing 1.0.2 released. Download here.

13 Feb 2009

Processing Monsters software, curated by Lukas Vojir, added to the exhibition.

13 Feb 2009

Seven new libraries added to Contributions: openCV by Stephane Cousot and Douglas Edric Stanley, motion and unzipit by Yonas Sandbaek, romeFeeder by Bruno Nadeau, colorlib by Andreas Koeberle and Jan VanTomme, supercad by Guillaume Labelle, jmcvideo by Angus Forbes, ical4p by Nikolaus Gradwohl.

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Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists By Casey Reas and Ben Fry	Learning Processing By Daniel Shiffman
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