Processing 2 Creative Coding Hotshot [Paperback]

Learn Processing with exciting and engaging projects to make your computer talk, see, hear, express emotions, and even design physical objects

Overview

• Teach your computer to create physical objects, visualize data, and program a custom hardware controller
• Create projects that can be run on a variety of platforms, ranging from desktop computers to Android smartphones
• Each chapter presents a complete project and guides you through the implementation using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions

In Detail

Processing makes it convenient for developers, artists, and designers to create their own projects easily and efficiently. Processing offers you a platform for expressing your ideas and engaging audiences in new ways. This book teaches you everything you need to know to explore new frontiers in animation and interactivity with the help of Processing.

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot' will present you with nine exciting projects that will take you beyond the basics and show you how you can make your programs see, hear, and even feel! With these projects, you will also learn how to build your own hardware controllers and integrate devices such as a Kinect senor board in your Processing sketches.

Processing is an exciting programming environment for programmers and visual artists alike that makes it easier to create interactive programs.

Through nine complete projects, Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot will help you explore the exciting possibilities that this open source language provides. The topics we will cover range from creating robot - actors performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , to generating objects for 3D printing, and you will learn how to run your processing sketches nearly anywhere from a desktop computer to a browser or a mobile device.

What you will learn from this book

• Make your computer see, hear, and feel withl“±