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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 Eclipse


The first thing you need to do to get started is install Eclipse. Eclipse is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Getting ready

Point your browser to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ to download Eclipse for your operating system. You'll see that there are a lot of available downloads. There are versions of Eclipse for Java developers, C/C++ developers, JavaScript, and so on. Pick the Eclipse Classic 4.2 version, and download the 32-bit or the 64-bit versions if your operating system supports it.

How to do it...

Once you've downloaded Eclipse, you can extract the contents of the .zip file. Drag the eclipse folder to your Applications folder on Mac OS X, or the Program Files folder on Windows. If you launch Eclipse for the first time, you'll get a message that you need to select a workspace. Eclipse will give you a default location for this folder; you should use this one if you aren't sure what you are doing. If you click OK, you'll find a folder named workspace in...