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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

Using Processing.js without the Processing editor


It's time to leave our beloved Processing editor and do something different. We'll take a look at how we can use Processing.js with a regular text editor. This helps you learn about the JavaScript version of Processing and gives you more control over what you do.

Getting ready

Download the latest version of Processing.js at http://processingjs.org/download/. You can use the Production version, which is a minified version of the full Development version. The size of this file is a lot smaller, so it is ideal to use on your website. The Processing.js file should be placed in the js folder. You also need the reset.css file we've used in the Creating a custom HTML template recipe.

How to do it...

We'll start by creating an HTML file with links to the CSS files and will then include the Processing.js file with a <script> tag. This is the full code for the HTML file. You need to save it in a new folder, as index.html.

<!doctype html>
&lt...