Just came back from the Art.ficial Emotion 3.0 exhibition in Sao Paulo, which featured some excellent interactive works. See my Art.ficial Emotion Flickr set for documentation.

I’ve pretty much been on blogging holiday lately, but here’s a few Processing links at least…

• Christian Riekoff has released an early version of a new PGraphics renderer called proGL, aimed at optimizing OpenGL performance by calling OpenGL directly instead of performing world transformations in Processing. See his post on the Processing forums for details.

  This should improve OpenGL performance for many applications. This project started during the EXTEND workshop in Barcelona, so I am personally especially happy to see this realized.

• Michael Chang has released a new version of his SVG importer library, called “Candy”. It’s a beta, again see the post on Processing forums.
• Ben has posted a new Processing status report, detailing what’s going on with the project. Some API changes are in the works on the way towards 1.0 status, and they are focusing on libraries as a way of extending Processing. Ben mentions changes to the library structure, but no details. Should be interesting.