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Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

By : Nikolaus Gradwohl
Book Image

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

By: Nikolaus Gradwohl

Overview of this book

Processing makes it convenient for developers, artists, and designers to create their own projects easily and efficiently. Processing offers you a platform for expressing your ideas and engaging audiences in new ways. This book teaches you everything you need to know to explore new frontiers in animation and interactivity with the help of Processing."Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot' will present you with nine exciting projects that will take you beyond the basics and show you how you can make your programs see, hear, and even feel! With these projects, you will also learn how to build your own hardware controllers and integrate devices such as a Kinect senor board in your Processing sketches.Processing is an exciting programming environment for programmers and visual artists alike that makes it easier to create interactive programs.Through nine complete projects, "Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot' will help you explore the exciting possibilities that this open source language provides. The topics we will cover range from creating robot - actors performing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", to generating objects for 3D printing, and you will learn how to run your processing sketches nearly anywhere from a desktop computer to a browser or a mobile device.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge


Now that you have completed building your robot-actors, why don't you try to take them to the next level?

  • Make them perform different plays. There are plenty of famous dialogs out there that could be performed by your robot-actors.

  • Currently your robot-actors are stationary. Try to add some servo motors and make them move their heads using an Arduino.

  • Connect some webcams to your computer and use Processing to record some videos of the performances from different angles.

  • Make your robot-actors perform a play with a real actor.

  • Make your robots read live input from the Web such as Twitter feeds or the news.

  • Your robots don't have to look like humans; make them look like zombies, aliens, animals, and so on.