Studio Sketchpad is an open studio for creating beautiful code, built with Processing on Etherpad.

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Studio SketchPad aims to be a open studio for individuals learning to sketch beautiful code on the web canvas.

That’s pretty vague. How about something more concrete…

Studio SketchPad was named after the two web technologies on which the application is built: the Sketch from Processing and the Pad from EtherPad. (The Studio metaphor used throughout the site was inspired by the writings of John Seely Brown, which I’ll save for another post.) EtherPad is used as a lightweight development environment for authoring (or co-authoring) small visual programs written in the Processing language. More on this…

The .cc TLD of the web address http://sketchpad.cc is a nod to the default CC-licensing adopted for the sketches created on the site. Unless otherwise specified by the author(s), works built on Sketchpad are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. This means that sketches can be cloned and modified by others, both on Sketchpad and elsewhere. This also means that sketches can build on other CC-BY works, such as those built using other wonderful Processing websites, such as SketchPatch and OpenProcessing. More on this…

Sketchpad is very much a work-in-progress, so please let me know what you think: your suggestions, feedback, bugs, and feature requests are all appreciated. Alternatively, you can contact me directly via email: ari at sketchpad dot cc.


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May 20th, 2010 at 4:48 am

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  • http://twitter.com/johnmclear John McLear

    Good work guys =)

  • Anonymous

    Good stuff! This is just what I was envisioning when I first dug into processing.js!

  • http://aribadernatal.com Ari Bader-Natal

    Thanks! Great to hear.

  • waik

    Best Etherpad reuse i have seen so far.
    Respect!
    I really enjoy it.

  • http://aribadernatal.com Ari Bader-Natal

    Thanks for the compliment! I’m glad to hear that you’re enjoy it.

  • Zevan

    I’ve know about this site for a bit, but for some reason it never really dawned on me just how cool it is. I could see it being a great teaching tool – excellent work!

  • Rockson CHAN

    thanks for the great work guys ~!!!
    just one question, i’ve running sketchpad on my galaxy tab 10.1 (running android 3.1), it works~! but kinda slow, not sure it is because of the network or just the tablet itself.
    wondering will sketchpad runs on ipad2 too?~
    thanks in advance ~!

  • http://aribadernatal.com Ari Bader-Natal

    Hi Rockson, 
    Nice to hear that it runs on the Galaxy Tab. It doesn’t work as well on the iPad (you can view sketches but not edit them.) Amazon’s Kindle, on the other hand, runs Sketchpad just fine (but slowly): http://blog.sketchpad.cc/2010/10/code-beautiful-on-a-sunny-day/