A few years ago I was deeply into 3d modelling and design.
One of many programs I’ve used in those days was SketchUp, made by an independant company nobody really heard of.
It is basically a program to really simply sketch in 3d to make concepts more visual.

So when I heard about a new sketching program for programmers I first thought of SketchUp and what had become of it.
It turns out its owned by our beloved company Google now.

Enough about that…

www.processing.org

For all the people who like to play around with 2d and 3d programs, processing lets you do the stuff you want to play with in a fraction of the time it would take you in, say, Visual Studio.

Creating a 3d environment with a plane that displays your webcam in about 15 lines of code. With the freedom of creating executables for Windows, Mac or Linux! Even a really simple export for the web, because it’s all java based!
For the advanced coder you can even include java packages and used them just the way you like!

I’m have a great time playing around with it and might even put some simple examples online shortly.