15.09
2009

There ought to be something profound for the very first post on this blog, but I’m struggling. I suspect that the benefits of this blog will only surface if and when lots of people start discussions.

At the weekend, I went on an introductory course on the open source computer programming language Processing. Processing was developed specifically for artists and others who think visually rather than in code, so although it’s a powerful, low-level tool, you can achieve amazing things with it using only a few lines of code.

In fact, a competition called Tiny Sketch has just finished, where the main rule is that programmes (or sketches as they’re called in Processing) have a maximum of 200 characters. That’s not 200 lines of code but 200 characters – less than one and a half Twitter messages! Some of the entries are amazing.

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