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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

Overview of this book

Processing is probably the best known creative coding environment that helps you bridge the gap between programming and art. It enables designers, artists, architects, students and many others to explore graphics programming and computational art in an easy way, thus helping you boost your creativity. "Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook" will guide you to explore and experience the open source Processing language and environment, helping you discover advanced features and exciting possibilities with this programming environment like never before. You'll learn the basics of 2D and 3D graphics programming, and then quickly move up to advanced topics such as audio and video visualization, computer vision, and much more with this comprehensive guide. Since its birth in 2001, Processing has grown a lot. What started out as a project by Ben Fry and Casey Reas has now become a widely used graphics programming language. Processing 2 has a lot of new and exciting features. This cookbook will guide you to explore the completely new and cool graphics engine and video library. Using the recipes in this cookbook, you will be able to build interactive art for desktop computers, Internet, and even Android devices! You don't even have to use a keyboard or mouse to interact with the art you make. The book's next-gen technologies will teach you how to design interactions with a webcam or a microphone! Isn't that amazing? "Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook" will guide you to explore the Processing language and environment using practical and useful recipes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the Processing tool template


We've covered installing the library template earlier in this chapter. The Processing team has also made a tool template for Eclipse. This template will let you create Processing tools in a more efficient way. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can install this template in Eclipse.

Getting ready

You'll need to download the tool template before you can get started with the installation. Download the tool template from http://code.google.com/p/processing/downloads/list. You don't have to unzip this file, as we'll import it into our Eclipse project.

How to do it...

You need to start by creating a new Java project in Eclipse. Go to the File | New | Java Project menu. Enter the text MyTool into the Project name text field, and click the Finish button.

Right-click on the MyTool project in the Package Explorer, and select Import… from the menu. Select the Archive File import source under General, and click the Next button. Click the Browse… button and...