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Processing vs Pure Data

A side-by-side look at Processing and Pure Data. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Processing

Processing

Development

Processing is an open-source graphical library and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.

visual-programmingcreative-codinggraphicsanimation
Pure Data

Pure Data

Audio & Music

Pure Data is an open-source visual programming language for multimedia, commonly used for audio and music composition and processing. It allows users to create graphical dataflow diagrams for generating and manipulating digital audio signals and MIDI messages.

visual-programmingdataflowaudio-processingmidi

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