Cinder Alternatives

Cinder is described as 'CINDER PROVIDES A POWERFUL, INTUITIVE TOOLBOX for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry. Cinder is cross-platform, and in general the exact same code works under Mac OS X, Windows and a growing list of other platforms — most' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cinder for Windows, Mac, Linux and Web-based. The best Cinder alternative is Processing, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cinder are Vuo, OpenFrameworks, Processing.js and Nodebox.

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  1. Processing icon

    Processing

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    Processing is an open source programming environment and library built to handle images, animation, and interactivity. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning to code, prototyping, and producing full applications.

    18 Processing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Processing is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cinder.

    • Processing is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cinder.

    • Processing is Free and Open SourceCinder is also Free and Open Source
  2. Vuo icon

    Vuo

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    Vuo lets media creators make interactive animations, exhibits, performances, and professional-grade media projects by connecting up simple building blocks. Media creators can use these blocks to manipulate audio input, images, layers, videos, and 2D + 3D graphics, as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Compositions made in Vuo
     
  4. OpenFrameworks icon

    OpenFrameworks

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    openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The toolkit is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries, including:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Processing.js icon

    Processing.js

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    Processing.js is an open programming language, port of the Processing Visualization Language, for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.

    33 Processing.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Processing.js is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cinder.

    • Processing.js is Free and Open SourceCinder is also Free and Open Source
  6. Nodebox icon

    Nodebox

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    NodeBox is a new software application for creating generative art using procedural graphics and a new way to approach graphic design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Context Free icon

    Context Free

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    Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Vvvv icon

    Vvvv

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    vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

    23 Vvvv alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Fugu Modelling System icon

    Fugu Modelling System

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    Fugu is a procedural modelling system for 3D graphics. It supports the generation, manipulation and animation of 3D form using scripts written in the Lua programming language. Fugu contains a code editor with all the usual bells and whistles, and a 3D view in which to visualise...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Fugu Modelling System screenshot 1
     
  11. Shoebot icon

    Shoebot

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    Shoebot is a pure Python graphics robot: It takes a Python script as input, which describes a drawing process, and outputs a graphic in a common open standard format (SVG, PDF, PostScript, or PNG). It has a simple text editor GUI, and scripts can describe their own GUIs for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Patternodes icon

    Patternodes

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    Patternodes is a tool for creating graphical vector patterns, animations or illustrations. This is done using a node-based interface where you define a sequence of connected nodes that describe the design, each representing graphical elements, changes or repetitions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Protovis

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    Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Force-Directed Layout
     
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    OpenRNDR

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    In short, OPENRNDR is a tool to create tools. It is an open source framework for creative coding, written in Kotlin for the Java VM that simplifies writing real-time interactive software. It fully embraces its existing infrastructure of (open source) libraries, editors...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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