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It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it's clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability of their purchased software. This book is an introduction to the concepts of 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. The ideas in Processing have been tested in classrooms, workshops, and arts institutions, including UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, New York University, and Harvard University. Tutorial units make up the bulk of the book and introduce the syntax and concepts of software (including variables, functions, and object-oriented programming), cover such topics as photography and drawing in relation to software, and feature many short, prototypical example programs with related images and explanations. More advanced professional projects from such domains as animat
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- Author
- Casey Reas, Ben Fry, John Maeda
- Publisher
- The MIT Press; MIT Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282098572
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Technology, Computer Science, Art
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (297 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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