Mass writing about processing

Okay, so this blog is about writing a bit of a book on the Processing environment. Quite nice it is too. The IDE is not great, although you can use an external one.

The great thing is that you can drop in Java code - it's Java underneath - and start drawing pictures within minutes. This is like BASIC used to be. Drawing lines and circles and what have you, sticking them in loops, changing the colours and widths of lines, all that fun stuff, without ever writing a paint method. But lots more, because you have all that Java power at your disposal and because they've thought about all the useful things you might like to do, like change transparency, or rotate and so on.

It looks like it will be fun. I have a mind to write something about Iterated Function Systems, taking me back to my days drawing fractals out of Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere book. It has not taken long to write my first attempts at that. Now I need to turn it into something accessible and fun to experiment with.