Why Processing + Jer Thorp

Welcome to Processing lesson by Jer Thorp.

At the time of these lessons, Jer Thorp was a digital artist in residence at the New York Times. Above are some images that he created using Processing to help readers understand certain statistics.

According to Jer Thorp, Processing is :

• geared towards an arts or visual background
• is a low floor high ceiling tool with room to grow
• a tool that takes place of the sketchbook for an artist
• a tool that makes it fast to get a project started, written and running
• a rapid prototyping environment

What you will do with these 8 Processing Lessons from the JT Workshop:

• Draw simple shapes in different colors and sizes using for loops and variables
• Build an interactive drawing program that allows you to save drawings
• Build an army of autonomous agents to create art at you and your trackpad's bidding
• Play around with images as the basis for other images that you create

I'm excited to see what you will make!