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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

Adding an icon to your Android App


If you want your app to stand out from the crowd, you'll need a great icon, so people can easily find it on their device. This is probably the easiest recipe from this chapter, but you'll need to know about it if you want to distribute your app via the Android Market.

How to do it...

For this recipe, I made a really conceptual piece of software art, inspired by the visuals of ANBB. It's a red background with a white shape on top of it:

void setup()
{
  size( displayWidth, displayHeight );
  smooth();
}

void draw()
{
  // draw red background with white shape.
  background( 255, 0, 0 );
  
  fill( 255 );
  noStroke();
  
  beginShape();
  vertex( width/2, 0 );
  vertex( width, height/2 );
  vertex( width/2, height );
  vertex( 0, height/2 );
  endShape( CLOSE );
}

The icon I've designed is also red, with the same white shape. Go ahead and create something similar. Fire up your favorite image editor, design an icon of 72 x 72 pixels, and save it as icon-72.png...