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Above is a new Box2D Processing example that demonstrates two key aspects of working with Box2D:
1) Though tempting as it may be, you cannot set the location manually of an object in the Box2D world and expect the physics to continue to work. Box2D doesn’t understand teleportation (which is the equivalent [...]

Building off of last week’s Box2D and Processing post, I have now posted a short tutorial about the physics package in toxiclibs. The force directed graph example is a simplified version of toxi’s wonderful fidgen project.
Link: http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/toxiclibs/

 
I’m pleased to announce I’ve published a first draft of a tutorial about using Box2D in Processing.
Tutorial: http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/box2d-processing/
Google code repository: http://code.google.com/p/pbox2d/
I’m struggling here to figure out whether I’m (a) creating a Processing Box2D library or (b) simply creating a tutorial and set of examples piggybacking off of JBox2D. For now, I’m doing [...]

For anyone who missed it, here’s a video of the 2009 Big Screens show at IAC. Thanks to Lina Giraldo for editing it together, and a great group of student volunteers who did the shooting.

  
It seems like every day I hear about another Processing book being published (or soon to be published). Joshua Noble’s recent book includes Processing along with openFrameworks and Arduino: Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks. Processing for Visual Artists is another new book I know little about, but [...]

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More info here: http://itp.nyu.edu/bigscreens2009/

ITP recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a weekend of events and activities compressing the entire ITP experience into 3 days. Saturday culminated with a gala event at IAC, celebrating the launch of the Red Burns Scholarship Fund. I worked with a group of ITP students and staff to develop content displayed on [...]

Yesterday, Rhizome published a short interview I conducted with Casey Reas and Ben Fry about the past, present, and future of Processing.

It’s taken me a little while, but here’s a brief recap of what was quite possibly the most heart-warming and thrilling conference I will ever have the chance to attend — ART + CODE: a symposium on programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us.

First, a hearty thank you to Golan [...]

   
This is long overdue, here are some photos and video from my class’ winter show on the IAC video wall. Six of the projects were made in Processing, three in openFrameworks, and three were pre-rendered video projects (synced using openFrameworks).
Big Screens ITP Show at IAC from shiffman on Vimeo.