文档介绍：Processing
Processing:
a programming
handbook for
visual designers
and artists
Casey Reas
Ben Fry
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reas, Casey.
Processing : a programming handbook for visual designers and artists / Casey Reas & Ben Fry ;
foreword by John Maeda.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-18262-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Computer programming. 2. Computer puter programs. 3. Digital puter programs.
4. Art—Data processing. 5. Art and technology. I. Fry, Ben. II. Title.
2007
—dc22
2006034768
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
xix Foreword 279 Motion 1: Lines, Curves
xxi Preface 291 Motion 2: Machine, Organism
301 Data 4: Arrays
1 Processing... 315 Image 2: Animation
9 Using Processing 321 Image 3: Pixels
327 Typography 2: Motion
17 Structure 1: Code Elements 333 Typography 3: Response
23 Shape 1: Coordinates, Primitives 337 Color 2: Components
37 Data 1: Variables 347 Image 4: Filter, Blend, Copy, Mask
43 Math 1: Arithmetic, Functions 355 Image 5: Image Processing
51 Control 1: Decisions 367 Output 1: Images
61 Control 2: