MetaSD » Processing http://blog.metasd.com Don't just do something, stand there! (Sometimes good policy in complex systems is counterintuitive) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Fun with Processing http://blog.metasd.com/2010/01/fun-with-processing/ http://blog.metasd.com/2010/01/fun-with-processing/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:40:52 +0000 Tom Fid http://blog.metasd.com/?p=799 Processing is a very clean, Java-based environment targeted at information visualization and art. I got curious about it, so I built a simple interactive game that demonstrates how dynamic complexity makes system control difficult. Click through to play:

dragdot

I think there’s a lot of potential for elegant presentation with Processing. There are several physics libraries and many simulations with a physical, chemical, or mathematical basis at OpenProcessing.org:

OpenProcessing

If you like code, it’s definitely worth a look.

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