Best language for procedurally generating bitmaps?

category: code [glöplog]

Newbie here, what's the best (or perhaps easiest for my case) language to start creating raster images from code?

added on the 2012-09-20 16:17:50 by wololo

There's nothing wrong with C / C++, but Processing can be nice if you really just wanna whip something up as fast as you can.

added on the 2012-09-20 16:23:35 by Gargaj

I think Processing should be a nice place to start for a total beginner.

added on the 2012-09-20 16:24:05 by Tarmil

or turtle :D

added on the 2012-09-20 16:29:49 by post malone

glsl

added on the 2012-09-20 16:30:58 by hornet

I would definitely say Processing

added on the 2012-09-20 17:10:16 by ferris

Php or js

added on the 2012-09-20 17:17:27 by rasmus/loonies

+1 for Processing

added on the 2012-09-20 17:57:48 by Marq

Evaldraw and this

added on the 2012-09-20 18:01:58 by Tigrou

Dunno if that can help: fab

added on the 2012-09-20 20:18:26 by baah

Depends on what you want to do. If you want to make computationally intensive images, shaders with GLSL or HLSL might be a good idea. If you want to keep it simple and just play around with stuff, Processing is excellent for just that purpose.

added on the 2012-09-20 20:22:55 by Preacher

I just played around with Processing and it's exactly what I'm looking for! I'll also try some of the other suggestions since they look fairly interesting.

Cheers guys!

added on the 2012-09-20 21:23:35 by wololo

Hi, I would say processing too but you already got there.

Also, if you get more confident and want to make real software rendered demos then you could later go for C/C++ and the SDL library.

added on the 2012-09-21 09:32:40 by Optimus

math

added on the 2012-09-21 10:37:12 by musk

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Best language for procedurally generating bitmaps?

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