Hi,

I thought that it would be good to share a project I've done in 2008 here. The project which is called "Glyphlux" is a reactive piece which uses the Arabic script letters as visual elements. An analysis of ambient sound of the environment results in changes in the color and size of the letters (pitch mapped to color, and loudness to size).

More information and some photos and videos can be found here:

http://www.shervinafshar.name/wiki/Glyphlux

One of the big challenges of using Processing with Arabic script is the lack of support for rendering RTL and joining scripts. As far as I read about this, the core developers are aware of this, but this needs contribution from users with some background in one of these languages (Arabic, Persian, etc).

I'm eager to work on this issue. In case anyone is interested to point me to the right places where the lack exists, it would make it easier to proceed from that point.

Shervin