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Learning Processing
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Learning Processing

by Daniel Shiffman
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
11h 36m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 12

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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