13 Making Your Work Public

Sketch 100: Processing on the Web

Processing sketches can usually execute within a browser, requiring little to no modification to make dynamic and interactive web objects. The system that allows this is Processing.js; it converts the Processing sketch into JavaScript before running it and displays the result in an HTML5 canvas.

There are four steps in running a sketch from the web:

  1. Download Processing.js. This means going to a site like https://processingjs.org/download/ and getting the files processing.js and processing.min.js.
  2. Create the Processing sketch. We’ll use Sketch 91, the aurora simulation, as our ...

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