p5.js

I think the key reason why this link has been posted to HN now is because p5js has a new website? Back in 2023 the Sovereign Tech Fund gave the p5js folks a €450k grant[1] "to enhance p5.js Documentation organization & accessibility" and this seems to be some of the results of that investment. In my view, it seems to be paying off - the site feels a lot easier to navigate and search, with more useful information. For example…

I give them credit for putting together a fun explanation of what they are trying to do. I've used Processing Java and Processing.js, so I assume this is some continuation or extension of those projects. It might be more effective if the explanation focused on the benefits of using p5, rather than just saying "It makes a circle" or "It draws a slider" (which are features). For instance, maybe some of these are true: - p5 speeds the creation of…

For art performance in browsers, you may want to check hydra synth: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ Here is the live coding performance I did for the Algorave 10th birthday online 24h streaming where I used Hydra for visuals: https://youtu.be/atoTujbQdwI?t=317

BTW, ChatGPT knows P5js pretty well. You can ask things like, "Write a P5js app that draws a sine wave and lets me control the phase." and out pops a working program with a slider to change the phase of a plotted sine wave. I used this to build a design tool to create an irrational phased balanced rotary magnetic bow. https://editor.p5js.org/spDuchamp/full/zgtkE2xik https://twitter.com/CommonStef/status/1654663207707979776 I was cutting and pasting big chunks of code between the P5js editor and ChatGPT in both…