p5.js

Javascript UI Libraries Charting Libraries 3D

p5.js Landing Page
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p5.js

JS library for creating graphic and interactive experiences
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Flowcharts 146 social mentions
Processing Landing Page
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Processing

C++ and Java programming at the speed of thought.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Some more context: Ben Fry posted a thread on X in 10/2023[1] where he announced and explained his decision to resign from the Processing Foundation. Seems like Processing got left out from expenses despite their large budget, running against their original reason to start the foundation: “I was soon shocked to learn that the Foundation spent nearly $800,000 last year. $0 of that went to Processing 4. This year, the proposed Foundation budget is around $1.2 million. But for Processing, there is budget for just two people: one developer, one community lead. You know what that sounds like? The reason we started a Foundation in the first place. Two people is not enough for any of the Processing software projects (i.e. Anything that lives at a http://processing.org domain.)” I wonder if most of the money went into p5 or the new website or whatever, but it made me a bit sad to see that the original Processing got left behind. It is what got me into programming and there are still lots of good reasons to choose it over p5. I can, however, understand if they prioritised p5 due to the rise of web apps and mobile devices, sharability, JS being everywhere and so on. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but it just doesn’t bring me as much joy as the original. [1]: https://x.com/ben_fry/status/1709400641456501020.

#3D #VJ #Interactive Presentations 340 social mentions
The Coding Train Landing Page

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The Coding Train

Online learning resource for beginner-friendly creative coding tutorials and challenges.

He has a knack for picking visual interesting problems/algorithms and his enthusiasm is unmatched. https://thecodingtrain.com/.

#Online Learning #Education #Open Source 24 social mentions
GSAP Landing Page
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GSAP

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is a suite of JavaScript tools for high-performance animations that work in all major browsers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $99.0 / Annually
GSAP[1] is pretty much the industry standard, I think. You have to pay for some of its more advanced features. There's also Anime.js[2] and Scene.js[3] - but I've never played with them so can't vouch for their usefulness. Both have had code updates in the past year. (Self-promotion time) I had a lot of fun adding an animation/tween system to my canvas library[4] a while back. Building out the code to run such animations is one thing; making it performant is a very different challenge![5] [1] https://gsap.com/ [2] https://github.com/juliangarnier/anime/ [4] https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Design Tools 79 social mentions