I first heard of Processing about a year ago, but never really installed it on my computer. Inspiration came after visiting the examples area and decided to dowload the software right away. For those who don’t know about Processing programming language you can read all about it here.

I went on to expand the libraries and found some great ones like the Physics library a simple particle system physics engine. Since I didn´t have any idea on how it worked I decided to start tweaking some code instead. Found this very nice website called Openprocessing.com with some great open source code examples and sketches. I used one example sketch by Abel Dewitz checkout his repertoire here.

After modifying the code I needed to embed the sketch into my webpage. For this you need to export the sketch and create an applet folder in the same directory of the sketch and then upload it to your webpage directory. This is the outcome:

I do really encourage you to go through each one of the sketches and try to modify the code so you can familiarize with the IDE. I´ve been playing arround a bit with it and finished a set of sketches mostly self portraits. Check them out: