Libraries
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
—Lily Tomlin
Many of the chapters that follow require the use of Processing libraries. This chapter will cover how to download, install, and use these libraries. I recommend that you read the chapter for a basic sense of libraries now (we will start talking about them immediately in Chapter 14: Translation and Rotation) and, if necessary, refer back to it when you suddenly find yourself downloading one (which first occurs in Chapter 15: Video).
12.1 Libraries
Whenever we call a Processing function, such as line( ), background( ), stroke( ), and so on, we are calling a function that we learned about from the Processing reference page (or perhaps even ...
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