Ira Greenberg, Dianna Xu, Deepak Kumar

Processing (eBook, PDF)

Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 is a fun and creative approach to learning programming. Using the easy to learn Processing programming language, you will quickly learn how to draw with code, and from there move to animating in 2D and 3D. These basics will then open up a whole world of graphics and computer entertainment.

If you’ve been curious about coding, but the thought of it also makes you nervous, this book is for you; if you consider yourself a creative person, maybe worried programming is too non-creative, this book is also for you; if you want to learn about the latest Processing 2.0 language release and also start making beautiful code art, this book is also definitely for you.

You will learn how to develop interactive simulations, create beautiful visualizations, and even code image-manipulation applications. All this is taught using hands-on creative coding projects. Processing 2.0 is the latest release of the open-source Processing language, and includes exciting new features, such as OpenGL 2 support for enhanced 3D graphics performance.

Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 is designed for independent learning and also as a primary text for an introductory computing class. Based on research funded by the National Science Foundation, this book brings together some of the most engaging and successful approaches from the digital arts and computer science classrooms.

• Teaches you how to program using a fun and creative approach.
• Covers the latest release of the Processing 2.0 language.
• Presents a research based approach to learning computing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: APRESS
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781430244653
• Artikelnr.: 43729667

Autorenporträt

Ira Greenberg directs the Center of Creative Computation and is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Meadows School of the Arts and Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX. He is the author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art and The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers, both from friends of ED/Apress. Ira received his BFA from Cornell University and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Theory of Processing and Computational Art.- Code Art.- Creative Coding.- Code Grammar 101.- Computer Graphics, the Fun, Easy Way.- The Processing Environment.- Putting Theory into Practice.- Lines.- Curves.- Object-Oriented Programming.- Shapes.- Color and Imaging.- Motion.- Interactivity.- 3D.

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1. Diving into the Shallow End
2. Art by Numbers
3. Processing Boot Camp
4. Creating Across Time and Curved Space
5. Expressive Power of Data
6. Organizing Chaos
7. Creative Abstraction
8. Drawing with Recursion
9. Painting with Bits
10. Expressive Imaging
11. Spreading Your Creative Coding Wings 

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"Processing is a didactic that is based on the idea that programming can be learned very easily through the creation of screen art. ... The main goal is to educate designers and artists ... . the book in combination with the programming environment also presents an excellent implementation of the concept. I recommend this work for anybody who wants to explore programming in a different way, or for a teacher who wants to get inspired for his or her own programming class." (Gerald Friedland, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)

"The book is intended as an introduction to programming for designers and artists using the Processing language and environment, a language designed 'by artists for artists' and available as open source. It contains 13 chapters, and begins with a relatively gentle introduction to Processing. It continues with chapters focusing on imaging, animation, and three-dimensional (3D) graphics." (Jeffrey Putnam, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)