*Competition Closed* Ho Ho Howdy folks! It's time for a rootin' tootin' special Christmas and New Year challenge with a reeeel tasty prize. A-yeeeeHarrrrr! This slicked back festive Codeo will be open 'til January the 22nd and to celebrate old Sheriff Cringle coming to town we’ll be giving away a dandy new 16GB iPod touch! This time we're testing your l33t skillz with Processing. Go grab the free, cross-platform development environment from here.

I've just come back from the excellent three day Flash on the Beach conference.

We've recently been playing with Open Frameworks (our first test project will show up in a blog post very soon) which is a C++ library that aims to provide people with some of the power available from a low-level programming language, while lowering the bar for entry.

Flash on the Beach, the UK's premier Flash event, took place last week in Brighton. There was a strong thread of generative art running through the conference, and how it can be used to create things that would be barely physically possible using traditional illustrator skills.

This post is going to be a bit epic, so here's a pretty picture. The rest of the text follows after the break.