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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

Write your first sketch with the Processing Eclipse plugin


Now that you've installed Eclipse and the Processing plugin, it's time to start writing code. We'll use both to write sketches, just as you would do with the PDE.

How to do it...

The first thing you need to do before you can use the plugin is set up the environment you'll work in. Go to the Window | Open Perspective | Other… menu, select Processing, and click OK. The interface of Eclipse will change a little.

You can now create a new Processing sketch by going to the File | New | Processing Sketch menu. You'll get a dialog where you can name your sketch, and pick the sketchbook folder. You should preferably use the default Processing sketchbook, but you can pick another directory if you want. Click the Finish button to create the sketch.

Your new sketch will be added to the Sketch Navigator on the left-hand side of the screen. If you open this folder, you'll find the code and data folders, as well as a .pde file with the name of your...