Hey Y'all,

I love Processing, but I find Python handy too, so I mashed them up together. The result is PRender:

http://github.com/bmander/prender/tree/master

Prender is a python module you can use to drive a Processing renderer subprocess. Like this:

 from prender import processing
 pr = processing.BaseRenderer()
 pr.start(200,200)
 pr.line(0,0,100,100)
 pr.line(0,100,100,0)
 pr.saveLocal( "x.png" )
 pr.stop()

I find PRender handy for making maps. For example:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/3312594211/sizes/o/in/photostream/ (big)

I was able to take the peculiar raw geographical data format and print it into the Processing renderer with nearly absurd ease, allowing me to make more stuff and experiment more quickly.

Cheers,
B

This is pretty cool and I'll have to play with it

Is there a way to use the processing renderer with more control than the drawing instructions?  Can I instruct the renderer to do things like read from a file and then do some looping to draw from that file?  or would it be better to read all of my data into python and then send only the draw commands to processing?

Would it be possible to feed a .pde file into the renderer as a way to get close to a CLI for processing?  It would be nice hack to be able to batch process things from a command line