Protovis Alternatives

Protovis is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are eight alternatives to Protovis for Windows, Mac, Linux and Web-based. The best Protovis alternative is Processing, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Protovis are Processing.js, Nodebox, Cinder and Context Free.

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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 Protovis.

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

    • Processing is Free and Open SourceProtovis is also Free and Open Source
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    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 Protovis.

    • Processing.js is Free and Open SourceProtovis is also Free and Open Source
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    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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  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Planetary
     
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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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    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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    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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    Evaldraw

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    Evaldraw allows you quickly write small programs in its C-like language. It supports static variables, enums, arrays, functions and just recently structs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Create instruments and play music!
     
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