Interview on OpenProcessing

Recently, I was interviewed on OpenProcessing, its origins, collaboration with Rhizome on the Tiny Sketch competition and it’s future. Below is a first couple of paragraphs; read the full article on Rhizome’s site:

Interview with Sinan Ascioglu:
OpenProcessing Architect

By Tim Stutts on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 1:00 pm.

“Driving through Iceland” sketch by dotlassie. Winner of Rhizome’s Tiny Sketch Competition.
OpenProcessing.org is a site that has built a community around sharing visual coding examples created in Processing. As user number 36, I had the unique privilege of watching the idea take shape, while in a thesis group with Sinan at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. During it’s first two years of activity, the site has grown to host thousands of user-generated sketches and subsequent conversations between artists / programmers, teachers, and students from around the world. Sinan and I escaped the snow recently at a café outside Washington Square Park to discuss OpenProcessing’s origins, Rhizome’s collaboration with OpenProcessing in the Tiny Sketch competition, and what we can expect for the future. – Tim Stutts

Tim: How did you first come up with the idea for OpenProcessing?

Sinan: I guess the first thing to talk about is OpenVisuals, which was my Master’s thesis project at ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University). I was reading Edward Tufte’s books at the time, and I became very interested in data visualization. In the meantime …. read more on Rhizome

OpenProcessing

I design and develop OpenProcessing.org, an online community platform for Processing developers and artists to upload and share their interactive sketches, browse and comment on each other’s works, and study the open-source code of any sketch.
OpenProcessing.org provides users to collaborate within this unique community, and support the open source sharing and learning. To support the community and sharing truely, OpenProcessing licenses any sketches uploaded with Creative Commons GNU GPL license.
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OpenVisuals
Open Source Visualization Framework

As my graduation project at ITP, I designed and developed OpenVisuals.org, a framework for different open source visualizations and data sets to work with each other. Gathering people who are interested in information/data visualization together, website is a user submitted collection of visualizations and data sets, that work with each other: Users can upload a data set and visualize it using any of the uploaded visualizations on the website, or develop a new visualization on top of any uploaded data set.

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