What is Processing?
"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions."
-Processing.org
I wanted to play around with doing some visual programming and had played with Processing in the past. I recently had been reading about Ruby-Processing and wanted to give it a shot. First, I went to look for some Ruby-Processing tutorials, and I had recently heard about the presentation by Jeff Casimir about the 'Art of Code' (slides and code), using Ruby-Processing. I went through those examples and decided I wanted to modify it to display snowflakes in the spirit of winter. After a bit of searching I found a project that generated a Penrose snow flake using Ruby-Processing. I figured I could modify the programs to get a nice snow flake screen saver type app. The result is my app Processing-Snow, and is shown in the screen shot below.
Processing-Snow
Playing around with Ruby-Processing is a lot of fun, I highly recommend spending a couple hours to make a tiny app. I built my Snow app in about an hour and a half. Then I spent a bit of time using Caliper to improve the metrics. For such a small project there wasn't a lot to improve, but it still helped me to do some refactoring. To get an idea of the code you can view Processing-Snow's Metrics.
Feel free to fork Processing-Snow on GitHub and read about how to run it with in the projectss README.
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