Manufacturer
Website	Processing
Platform	Windows OSX Linux
Price	Free
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processing provides a simple Java-based IDE for developing your visual ideas. Its design approach allows for endless extensibility through libraries and your own developments.
processing won a Golden Nica for "Net Vision" at Ars Electronica Festival 2005 in Linz, Austria.

AEC press release:
As an innovative, easily understood programming language, "Processing" enables students, artists, designers and architects to design and produce virtual prototypes. The program can be utilized as both a sort of virtual sketchbook as well as a professional graphics program.

"Processing" is an open project that was initiated by Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry. The program was developed jointly by a large group of artists working together on a voluntary basis, and is still constantly being revised and updated. This open-source software opens up completely new possibilities of doing artistic work on the computer.