Review of a processing artist or project

I went to openprocessing .org to look for something to write about .

A processing artist that I like is Edward Porten. You can view his projects at http://www.openprocessing.org/portal/?userID=6535.  One thing that I like about his projects is that most of them are interactive. He also lets people choose what to see a lot of the time. For example, one of them does fly overs of planets and you can choose which one by selecting an image. One down side of the fly over sketches is that they are slow to show any detail. His 3D fractal explorer lets you choose what to see from a list.  I also like the color in a lot of his projects.

He has a lot of skill with processing. He writes his own functions and knows how to use music and sync motion to it. Bezier Boogie is a good one for that. It’s fun to watch. He uses animation and 3D rendering. He’s okay with people taking his code to learn from and answers questions from people.

A project that I like is the Tiny Sketch project which was on Rhizome. It was a challenge they put on in 2009 to make a sketch that would be interesting using only 200 characters or less. All sketches had to work correctly on the internet and couldn’t use any libraries or external files. I like this project because it shows many things that people can do with processing without a lot of code. The archive for this project is at http://www.openprocessing.org/collection/70 .