Recently I blogged about how I was going to start to use Processing. Since then I have realised that the Processing application is way too basic for me.  Using Eclipse or Flash Builder much of the time I naturally looked to see if there was a way of bringing in Processing to the Eclipse environment, and very quickly I found the following link…

http://www.creativecoding.org/en/beyond/p5/eclipse_as_editor

Since Processing uses Java, I decided to download the standard Eclipse package. Following the instructions from the link above I quickly got a simple applet working. However I came across a couple of minor issues. Now I used to use Java, but many years ago, so I was quite rusty regarding the Java language, but when I create a simple applet, I immediately got this error…

One of the applications that I keep an eye on is an open source app called Blender. I think it is a fantastic 3D application.

But it does a lot more – particles, games, physics, compositing, and so on.

Previously it suffered from a non-standard interface, and so was quite difficult for newbies to download and just run with it.

However there is a new version coming out, version 2.5, which is in alpha at the moment, and I would recommend anyone who is into 3D to download Blender 2.5 alpha and play with it.

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