The Extend: Advanced Processing Workshop is underway, we are just doing introductions and talking about possible directions.

Here are some links to ways of doing print output from Processing, including PDF, PostScript etc:

• Processing PDF tips
• Using multiple tiles to output hires images from OpenGL
• AIExport, exports Adobe Illustrator files
• proSVG, exports SVG files
• Geomerative, a 2D geometry library. Made by Ricard Marxer, who is taking part in the workshop.
• SVG Import library by mflux (see discussion on the forum)

See also:

• Scriptographer
• http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#big
• RawFXF
• PGraphicsPDF

Here are some links to code I’ve written or hacks I’ve set up for use with Processing.

• Accessing del.icio.us from Processing
• SimplePostscript library for Processing. Gives simple PostScript output, see also the processinghack I wrote.
• processing.unlekker.net, sketches and experiments. Hasn’t been updated for a while, but some of the sketches are kind of fun. Like this one.

I have written a simple library for harnessing the FFT analysis built into Sonia. It is very useful for VJ use, I just used it on the Generator.x concert tour with success.

Basically it keeps track of the recent maximum values, and uses them to normalize the input so that you will get a predictable range of values. It also uses a very simple dampening mechanism to get more harmonious results. I will post it here as a library in the immediate future.

This marks the launch of the workshop.evolutionzone.com blog, which is intended as a supporting tool for use in workshops and as a place to put all code-related materials I produce. My old workshop site is still online, but has been moved to workshop.evolutionzone.com/old. Sorry for the inconvenience.

So far there is little here, expect more next week in connection with the EXTEND: Advanced Processing Workshop in Barcelona. I will be looking at using Processing to produce high-res work for print, as well as possible uses of Processing for VJ’ing.