Post-orals, I felt this momentum for continued productivity, but no project to which to apply that productivity came to mind as being most urgent, so I ended up downloading Processing and checking it out. I've been meaning to for a long time (years, really); Processing is what has made many of the incredible information visualization projects of the last few years possible. The History of Sampling (by Jesse Kriss) is still one of my favorites, and Jesse's former professor Golan Levin has a simply ridiculous body of amazing work.
I've made a few little first forays into Processing so far. Here they are:
1) A sketch that imports data (a composer's name and years of birth/death), and creates a timeline graph at the appropriate scale. It took a little time to make the graph update dynamically based on the data it got.
2) A bouncing ball. Mindblowing, I know.
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