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Processing comes with a bunch of cool code examples. Next, let’s load the BrownianMotion example into the Processing application. You can access the example, and many others, through Processing’s File menu, as follows: Select File ➤ Sketchbook ➤ Examples ➤ Motion ➤ BrownianMotion from the top menu bar. You should see a bunch of code fill the text-editor section of the Processing window, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2. The Processing application interface with a loaded sketch To launch the sketch, click the right-facing run arrow (on the left of the brown toolbar at the top of the Processing window—it looks like a VCR play button), or press Cmd+R (OS X) or Ctrl+R (Windows). If you were successful, a 200-pixel-by-200-pixel display window with a dark gray background should have popped open, showing a white scribbly line meandering around the window (see Figure 3). Congratulations! You’ve just run your first Processing sketch. I recommend trying some of the other examples to get a taste of what Processing can do and to familiarize yourself a little with Processing’s simple yet elegant interface. INTRODUCTION xxvii
INTRODUCTION xxviii Figure 3. Screenshot of BrownianMotion sketch How to use this book I created this book with a couple of objectives in mind. Based on my own creative experiences working with code and application software, I wanted to present a conceptual introduction to code as a primary creative medium, including some history and theory on the subject. Based on my experiences in the digital art classroom, I wanted to provide an artistfriendly, introductory text on general programming theory and basic graphics programming. Lastly, based on my experience of working with a number of programming languages (especially ActionScript and Java), I wanted to introduce readers to an exciting new approach to creative coding with the Processing language and environment. Accomplishing all this required a fairly ambitious table of contents, which this book has. In addition to the 800+ pages within the book, there are an additional 142 pages of “bonus” material online, at www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=159059617X. The bonus material is divided into Chapter 14 and Appendix C. Chapter 14 covers Processing’s Java mode, as well as some advanced 3D topics. Appendix C provides a tutorial on how to use the Processing core library in “pure” Java projects—outside of the Processing environment.
Page 1 and 2: IrA GreenberG CreATe CoDe ArT, vIsu
Page 3 and 4: Processing: Creative Coding and Com
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Foreword . . .
Page 7 and 8: CONTENTS Foreword . . . . . . . . .
Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS viii The joy of math . . .
Page 11 and 12: CONTENTS x Applying OOP to shape cr
Page 13 and 14: CONTENTS xii Environment . . . . .
Page 15 and 16: FOREWORD If you are like me (and th
Page 17 and 18: ABOUT THE AUTHOR With an eclectic b
Page 19 and 20: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am very fortunate
Page 21 and 22: INTRODUCTION Welcome to Processing:
Page 23 and 24: INTRODUCTION xxii Intended audience
Page 25 and 26: INTRODUCTION xxiv Setting up Proces
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} pts[counter2].y-yg); xg*=-1; coun
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} } // generates organic looking br
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3 CODE GRAMMAR 101
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Your first program In most programm
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message comes up on the bar in the
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Variables Variables are essential t
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It’s because strict typing helps
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Stage 3 adds the gradient: /* title
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Assignment operators The only other
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Animation is a perfect example of t
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if (hunger= starving) { eatAnything
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function call above*/ // fill(i*255
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4 COMPUTER GRAPHICS, THE FUN, EASY
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Some of the reasons coding graphics
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eally shines. And remember, as you
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need to be stored in memory, and th
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Geometry Like algebra, geometry dat
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*Simple Repeating Wave Pattern Ira
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a piece of paper and do a little mo
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6 LINES
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Figure 6-2. Two-point sketch Adding
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coordinates of the line. For exampl
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call scribble function strokeWeight
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smooth(); float x = random(width);
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the book that a primitive type is d
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12 INTERACTIVITY
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I’m not going to provide examples
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INDEX 776 SYMBOLS AND NUMERICS /* a
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INDEX 810 VERY_HIGH option, encrypt
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