Flash, the defining app for interactive graphics, works great until you overload it with data. Then it crashes. Few designers want to tackle C++ and Java, so they've turned to Processing. The open source software replaces all three, making advanced animation a snap: Plug in a single line of code to draw a square, add three more lines, and the square follows your cursor. Created by Benjamin Fry of MIT's Aesthetics and Computation Group and Casey Reas of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, the program is so easy that more than 1,000 digital artists, including Sodaplay creator Ed Burton, have already downloaded the alpha version.
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Coding made easy: A new advanced app called Processing beats Flash, C++, and Java.
The beta debuts September 6 at the international digital show Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. The finished product will be available free for download at proce55ing.net.
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