Welcome to this workshop that is part of the Olhares de Outono festival.

We will use this week to look at the principles behind generative systems, and apply them to topics like animation, visual synthesis and practical production of digital media. We will be using the Open Source tool Processing, created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.

I recommend that you go to Processing.org/books and download the sample PDF from Casey and Ben’s book “Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists”. It contains the first 100 pages of the book, and covers most of the basic commands in Processing.

I will post files from the workshop at the following URL:
http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/workshops/071029_porto

Processing links

• Processing.org
• Processing libraries
• Processing Flickr group
• Processingblogs.org
• Processing Hacks
• del.icio.us/tag/processing.org

Recommended blogs

• Generator.x
• Daniel Shiffman: Teaching at ITP / Blog
• Flight404 aka Robert Hodgins
• Toxi aka Karsten Schmidt

OOP tutorials

• Dan Shiffman: Particle systems
• JavaRanch: How my Dog learned Polymorphism
• The Java Tutorials: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts