Processing Alternatives

Processing is described as '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' and is a popular app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Processing for Mac, Windows, Linux and Web-based. The best Processing alternative is OpenFrameworks, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Processing are Processing.js, Cinder, Vuo and Vvvv.

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  1. 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
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    • Linux
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    • Most users think OpenFrameworks is a great Processing alternative.

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

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

    • OpenFrameworks is Free and Open SourceProcessing is also Free and Open Source
  2. 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 Processing.

    • Processing.js is Free and Open SourceProcessing is also Free and Open Source
  4. Cinder icon

    Cinder

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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    does what it does best uniquely and beautifully, and yet it is entirely different from processing

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    • Cinder is Free and Open SourceProcessing is also Free and Open Source
  5. 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
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  6. 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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  7. 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
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    • Linux
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    Fugio

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    Fugio is a free, open source, visual programming system for making digital art and creative projects using a wide range of technologies, for Windows, OS X, and Linux (including Raspberry Pi).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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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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    Cables

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    Cables is a tool for creating beautiful interactive content. An easy to navigate, node-based interface provides users with basic operators such as mathematical functions, shapes and materials that can be connected with virtual cables to create practically any imaginable scene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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    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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    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
     
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    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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