Tool Ideas

Graphics Widgets

• Bezier editor d.rifkin, Devin Rifkin
• Timeline Editor d.rifkin, Devin Rifkin
• General shape editor fjenett, Florian Jenett
• Wave generator, additive tool
• Grid, Coordinate selector, Coordinate manager
• Timeline tool extension (Populate with easing functions, Add MIDI, Add coordinates)
• Button creator
• Color Selector improvement (Sample any pixel on screen, Palette generator, Import #s into code (or clipboard)
• 3D Shape maker (Code, Tube, Surfaces (SurfaceLib), Pyramid, Torus, Teapot, Cow)
• Wireframe or Polygon meshes tweakers
• Landscape generator
• OBJ viewer
• Image animation helper
• Sketching animation tool
• Transition between drawing in Processing and SVG files
• Print Ready Tool (Generates code needed to tile or scale a project for PDF and bitmaps)

Graphics Tutorial Apps

• Trigonometry teaching tool (Explain how sin() and cos() relate the the circle and angles)
• More math education apps
• Famous Curves browser (Famous Curves Applet Index)
• Shaping Functions browser (Polynomial Shaping, etc.)
• Lighting stage for testing out lights (Place and parameterize different lights within a scene)
• Geometry filter/distortion
• Image filter/distortion

Environment Tweaks and Improvements

• Export to Processing.js fjenett / Florian Jenett
• Quick reference fjenett / Florian Jenett
• Different font highlighting schemes (P51+, P5Beta, Geek, Rainbow)
• Library and Tool loader/unloader (Master file referenced from Processing.org, User can paste their own URL)
• Uploader to any site (OpenProcessing, etc.)
• GitHub integration
• Example viewer
• IDE Skins
• Syntax highlighting for Web (Include links to Reference like OpenProcessing)

Coding Assistants

• Live coding fjenett / Florian Jenett
• Oblique Strategies sansumbrella / David Wicks
• Mangle Selection fry / Benjamin Fry
• Template maker
• Variable manager / Console (Constructs map, find and replace) (in 3.0?)
• Debugging tool (Step through code, Turn on strict mode / training wheels) (in 3.0)
• Software map (UML)
• Code performance evaluator, profiler
• Finding and moving blocks of code
• Screen setup manager tool (Remove menu bar, Create multiple windows)
• Events the edge of frustration ("KEYJAM", visualize error message)
• Highlight letters in your code to make messages
• Iterator tool (or Library) (Automating variation, re-run the code to see the total results)
• Processing stats info / visualization (Time, # of compiles, etc.)
• Code navigation tool (Builds a navigable diagram of classes and functions)