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Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2

by Ira Greenberg, Dianna Xu, Deepak Kumar

March 2013

Beginner to intermediate

472 pages

12h 25m

English

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Programming vs. Computer ScienceArt + Science = Creative CodingMIT Media LabWhat Is Processing?Quick TourProcessing Menu SystemSummary
AlgorithmsDrawing with CodePrimitivesAlgorithmic FaceSummary
FunctionsMoving Beyond the PrimitivesExpanding the APIHaving Some Polygonal FunSummary
Keep It LocalReturning ValuePrime TimeMaking Things MoveIntroducing CurvesSummary
ArraysPrimitive and Reference TypesArrays As ParametersTime Series VisualizationData VisualizationBasic PlotsAlgorithms and Issues of Space and TimeSummaryReferences
Objects: Attributes and BehaviorClasses: Object FactoriesObject-Oriented Programming in ProcessingBall in a BoxSimulated Physics: Verlet MotionInheritance: Is-a RelationshipsInterfaces Are DoableSummary
StringsText Visualization: Creating Word CloudsCreative Data VisualizationSummaryReferences
Recursive FunctionsFactorialRecursive CirclesRecursive SquaresRecursive TreeLindenmayer SystemsAdvanced Visualization: TreemapSummaryReferences
Digital ImagesRaster ProcessingMulti-dimensional ArraysProcessing’s Pixel Buffer(s)Bitwise Processing and Component FunctionsComplex SystemsChapter Project: Truchet TilingSummaryReferences
Image IOTintingMaskingBlendingFilteringAdvanced FiltersImage specialFXChapter Project: Image MosaicSummary
3DAdvancing to JavaModesSummary

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About the Technical Reviewer

Ryan Rusnak is a software developer with a passion for creative coding. He holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Human-Computer Interaction. His projects have been featured in WIRED, Popular Science, and on the Science Channel and the Graham Norton Show. He currently resides in Arlington, VA with his wife Kirby Rusnak.