Processing Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Processing for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is OpenFrameworks, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Processing and 14 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Processing are Cinder, Vuo, Cables and Fugio.

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  1. OpenFrameworks icon
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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:

    17 OpenFrameworks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Cinder icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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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
  3. Vuo icon
     12 likes

    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
     
  4. Cables icon
     3 likes

    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.

    16 Cables alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Fugio icon
     9 likes

    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
     
  6. Nodebox icon
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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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. OpenRNDR icon
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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
     
  8. Shoebot icon
     5 likes

    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
     
  9. Context Free icon
     10 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Patternodes icon
     2 likes

    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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Generativepy icon
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    generativepy can be used to create generative art using Python. It can be used to create art using geometric patterns, fractals, particle systems, cellular automata and many other generative art techniques. It can output images or videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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
     
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