Processing: Creative Coding & Computational Art

Description

If you're interested in creating cutting-edge code-based art and animations, you've come to the right place! Processing (available at www.processing.org) is a revolutionary open source programming language and environment designed to bridge the gap between programming and art, allowing non-programmers to learn programming fundamentals as easily as possible, and empowering anyone to produce beautiful creations using math patterns. With the software freely available, Processing provides an accessible alternative to using Flash for creative coding and computational artboth on and off the Web.

This book is written especially for artists, designers, and other creative professionals and students exploring code art, graphics programming, and computational esthetics. The book provides a solid and comprehensive foundation in programming, including object-oriented principles, and introduces you to the easy-to-grasp Processing language, so no previous coding experience is necessary. The book then goes through using Processing to code lines, curves, shapes, and motion, continuing to the point where you'll have mastered Processing and can really start to unleash your creativity with realistic physics, interactivity, and 3D! In the final chapter, you'll even learn how to extend your Processing skills by working directly with the powerful Java programming languagethe language Processing itself is built with.

CONTENTS:

Introduction:

Section I. Foundation

Chapter 1. Code Art

Chapter 2. Creative Coding

Chapter 3. Code Grammar 101

Chapter 4. Graphics Programming the "fun easy" Way

Chapter 5. Processing Language

Section II. Drawing with Code

Chapter 6. Lines

Chapter 7. Shapes

Chapter 8. Value and Color

Section III. Animating with Code

Chapter 9. Motion

Section IV. Interacting with Code

Chapter 10. Interactivity

Section V. The third Dimension

Chapter 11. 3D

Section VI. Exploring with Code

Chapter 12. Advanced Motion

Chapter 13. Emergent Forms

Chapter 14. Artificial Intelligence

Section VII. Extending Processing

Chapter 15. Core Libraries