Processing Creative Coding and Computational Art

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. FOREWORD
6. About the Author
7. About the Tech Reviewers
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
   1. Impetus for writing the book
   2. Intended audience
   3. Coding as an organic, creative, and cathartic process
   4. "I'm an artist-I Don't do math"
   5. Toward a left/right brain integration
   6. Setting up Processing
   7. Web capability
   8. Launching the application
   9. How to use this book
   10. Give us some feedback!
   11. Layout conventions
10. PART ONE: THEORY OF PROCESSING AND COMPUTATIONAL ART
    1. Chapter 1: Code Art
       1. Aesthetics + Computation
       2. Computer art history
       3. Code artists
       4. Summary
    2. Chapter 2: Creative Coding
       1. The origin of Processing
       2. Programming language comparisons
       3. Procedural OOP ("poop") approach
       4. Algorithms aren't as scary as they sound
       5. Happy coding mistakes
       6. Algorithmic tree
       7. Summary
    3. Chapter 3: Code Grammar 101
       1. Structure and abstraction
       2. Your first program
       3. Literals
       4. Variables
       5. Operators
       6. Conditionals
       7. Arrays and loops
       8. Functions
       9. Summary
    4. Chapter 4: Computer Graphics, the Fun, Easy Way
       1. Coordinate systems
       2. Anatomy of an image
       3. The pixel
       4. Graphic formats
       5. Animation
       6. The joy of math
       7. Interactivity
       8. Summary
    5. Chapter 5: The Processing Environment
       1. How it works
       2. Tour de Processing
       3. Programming modes
       4. Rendering modes
       5. Summary
11. PART TWO: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
    1. Chapter 6: Lines
       1. It's all about points
       2. Streamlining the sketch with a while loop
       3. Streamlining the sketch further with a for loop
       4. Creating organic form through randomization
       5. Coding a grid
       6. Creating space through fades
       7. Creating lines with pixels
       8. Processing's line functions
       9. Joining lines
       10. Creating a table structure
       11. Vertex functions
       12. Anti-aliasing using the smooth function
       13. Applying the vertex function
       14. Creating line strips
       15. Line loops
       16. Polygons and patterns
       17. Summary
    2. Chapter 7: Curves
       1. Making the transition from lines to curves
       2. Creating curves using trig
       3. Creating curves using polynomials
       4. Using Processing's curve functions
       5. Summary
    3. Chapter 8: Object-Oriented Programming
       1. A new way of programming?
       2. BurritoRecipe class
       3. Advanced OOP concepts
       4. Summary
    4. Chapter 9: Shapes
       1. Patterns and principles (some encouragement)
       2. Processing's shape functions
       3. Applying OOP to shape creation
       4. Creating a neighborhood
       5. Summary
    5. Chapter 10: Color and Imaging
       1. The importance of color
       2. Color theory
       3. A quick review of creating transformations
       4. Pushing and popping the matrix
       5. Setting the color mode
       6. More convenient color functions
       7. Imaging
       8. Summary
    6. Chapter 11: Motion
       1. Animation basics
       2. Simple collision detection
       3. Accessing time
       4. Fun with physics
       5. Object interactions
       6. Advanced motion and object collisions
       7. Asteroid shower in three stages
       8. Inter-object collision
       9. Summary
    7. Chapter 12: Interactivity
       1. Interactivity simplified
       2. Mouse events
       3. Creating a simple drawing application
       4. Keystroke events
       5. Summary
    8. Chapter 13: 3D
       1. Processing 3D basics
       2. 3D transformation
       3. Creating a custom cube
       4. 3D rotations
       5. Beyond box() and sphere()
       6. Summary
12. PART THREE: REFERENCE
    1. Appendix A: Processing Language API
       1. Introducing the Processing API
       2. Structure
       3. Environment
       4. Data
       5. Control
       6. Shape
       7. Input
       8. Output
       9. Transform
       10. Lights, Camera
       11. Color
       12. Image
       13. Rendering
       14. Typography
       15. Math
       16. Constants
       17. Processing libraries
    2. Appendix B: Math Reference
       1. Algebra
       2. Geometry
       3. Trigonometry
       4. Bitwise Operations
13. Index