PROCESSING: A PROGRAMMING HANDBOOK FOR VISUAL DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS 2/E

　　The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of literacy that enables them to create new media for the present, and to imagine future media that are beyond the capacities of current software tools. This book introduces this new literacy by teaching computer programming within the context of the visual arts. It offers a comprehensive reference and text for Processing (www.processing.org), an open-source programming language that can be used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and anyone who wants to program images, animation, and interactivity. Written by Processing’s cofounders, the book offers a definitive reference for students and professionals. Tutorial chapters make up the bulk of the book; advanced professional projects from such domains as animation, performance, and installation are discussed in interviews with their creators.This second edition has been thoroughly updated. It is the first book to offer in-depth coverage of Processing 2.0 and 3.0, and all examples have been updated for the new syntax. Every chapter has been revised, and new chapters introduce new ways to work with data and geometry. New “synthesis” chapters offer discussion and worked examples of such topics as sketching with code, modularity, and algorithms. New interviews have been added that cover a wider range of projects. “Extension” chapters are now offered online so they can be updated to keep pace with technological developments in such fields as computer vision and electronics.

Foreword
Preface
Contents
How to read this book
Casey’s introduction
Ben’s introduction
Acknowledgments
1 Processing…
2 Using Processing
3 Draw
4 Color
5 Variables
6 Flow
7 Interactivity
8 Repeat
9 Synthesis 1
10 Interviews: Image
11 Text
12 Typography
13 Image
14 Transform
15 Vertices
16 3D Drawing
17 Shapes
18 Synthesis 2
19 Interviews: Interaction
20 Calculate
21 Random
22 Motion
23 Time
24 Functions
25 Objects
26 Synthesis 3
27 Interviews: Motion, Performance
28 Arrays
29 Animation
30 Dynamic Drawing
31 Simulate
32 Data
33 Interface
34 Image Processing
35 Render Techniques
36 Synthesis 4
37 Interviews: Environment
38 Continuing…
Appendixes
Related Media
Glossary
Code Index
Index