Processing and Arduino

After a trip to the Mattress Factory Art Museum at (http://www.mattress.org/) in Pittsburgh. I have been thinking more and more about the visualization of multi-dimensional systems. In looking at the links from the last blog on agent models and GIS, I learned about the programming language "Processing" at http://processing.org/ . Since they are also doing work with Arduino,

"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain."

The work with Arduino at http://www.arduino.cc/ returns me to my work and thoughts on interfacing multiple sensor boards with XBee wireless technologies for the design of a human interface that monitors EKG and EEG signals as well as body movements to construct painting videos. Below is the user Interface shown in Figure 1. which is the same as Arduino's for writing programs.

Figure 1. Windows GUI with Animated Sprite Program.

More on this later.