[-empyre-] Re: empyre Digest, Vol 12, Issue 26

[ian hobbs <ian@laudanum.net>]

Dear Em's and JIm


> One of my hopes is that it will allow me to collaborate with artists 
> who
> have greater visual skills are more focused on the visual -- 
> facilitating
> a collaboration that draws together different skills, in which everyone
> can understand and work with the code.

Yes processing is a fun little application -  although I suspect for 
introductory programming,
It's not going to make the grade. I use flash and actionscript for 
introductory programing
because of it's verbose and natural ( like english) syntax.

Processing is one of many cute little graphic apps that produce narrow 
visual expressions.
Check BDD( http://www.bermuda.ch/bureaudestruct/bddesigner/index.html   
-authored in Director )
out  for producing 1960's swiss graphics. I use these applications to 
explore the inevitable imposition
of style by produced by graphic applications, in an attempt to lure 
students away from photoshop filter frenzy.

cheers
Ian Hobbs