Getting Started with Processing

by Reas, Casey

• ISBN13: 9781449379803
• ISBN10: 144937980X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Maker Media Inc

Summary

Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, "Getting Started with Processing" is packed with projects developers can dive right into. Just download Processing (for free) from processing.org and start tinkering with the examples in this book.

Author Biography

Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With Ben Fry, he co-founded Processing in 2001. He is the co-author of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (2007) and Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (2010). His work is archived at http://www.reas.comwww.reas.com.

Ben Fry has a doctorate from the MIT Media Laboratory and was the 2006-2007 Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He worked with Casey Reas to develop Processing, which won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Ben's work has received a New Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Ars Electronica, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and the 2003 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Hello	p. 1
Sketching and Prototyping	p. 2
Flexibility	p. 3
Giants	p. 4
Family Tree	p. 5
Join In	p. 6
Starting to Code	p. 7
Your First Program	p. 8
Show	p. 10
Save	p. 11
Share	p. 12
Examples and Reference	p. 13
Draw	p. 15
Basic Shapes	p. 16
Drawing Order	p. 22
Shape Properties	p. 23
Color	p. 26
Custom Shapes	p. 30
Comments	p. 33
Draw	p. 34
Variables	p. 37
Making Variables	p. 39
Processing Variables	p. 40
A Little Math	p. 40
Repetition	p. 42
Variables	p. 49
Response	p. 51
Follow	p. 53
Map	p. 58
Click	p. 60
Location	p. 64
Type	p. 68
Response	p. 74
Media	p. 77
Images	p. 78
Fonts	p. 83
Shapes	p. 86
Media	p. 89
Motion	p. 91
Speed and Direction	p. 92
Tweening	p. 95
Random	p. 97
Timers	p. 99
Circular	p. 100
Translate, Rotate, Scale	p. 104
Motion	p. 113
Functions	p. 115
Function Basics	p. 116
Make a Function	p. 118
Return Values	p. 124
Functions	p. 126
Objects	p. 129
Classes and Objects	p. 130
Objects	p. 138
Arrays	p. 141
Make an Array	p. 144
Repetition and Arrays	p. 147
Arrays of Objects	p. 150
Arrays	p. 153
Extend	p. 157
3D	p. 158
Image Export	p. 164
Hello Arduino	p. 168
Community	p. 175
Coding Tips	p. 177
Data Types	p. 183
Order of Operations	p. 185
Variable Scope	p. 187
Index	p. 189
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