Processing for Visual Artists: How to Create Expressive Images and Interactive Art - Softcover

Glassner, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568817169 ISBN 13: 9781568817163

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2010

Synopsis

Learn how to create gorgeous and expressive imagery with the Processing graphics language and environment. It's easy with this practical, hands-on book. Processing is for artists, designers, visualization creators, hobbyists, or anyone else looking to create images, animation, and interactive pieces for art, education, science, or business. Processing for Visual Artists shows you everything you need to know in a friendly, project-based style designed for visual thinkers.

The projects can serve as a starting point for your own original, creative development and exploration. Walk with veteran author Andrew Glassner on a journey of shared discovery as he uses Processing to take each project from inspiration to reality. You'll closely follow every step he takes and see exactly how each piece evolves, including the big and small mistakes he's made along the way (and how to fix them!), and the times when he changed direction.

As your knowledge and skills grow and develop, you'll understand why Processing is such a powerful tool for self-expression. And you'll be ready to strike off on your own. Processing offers you a 21st-century medium for expressing new kinds of ideas and engaging audiences in new ways. This book gives you everything you need to know to explore new frontiers in your own images, animations, and interactive experiences.

Source code for each chapter is available for free download on the book's description at the crcpress website.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Andrew Glassner is a writer-director, and a consultant in story structure, interactive fiction, games, and computer graphics. He has carried out research in 3D computer graphics at Bell Communications Research, the IBM Watson Research Lab, Xerox PARC, and Microsoft Research. His many research papers and books cover theory and practice in fields such as 2D graphics, 3D graphics, interactive storytelling, and digital sound synthesis. His design work has been featured in locations from musical instruments and tattoos to iPhone applications to museum exhibits. Glassner is now a full-time writer-director and educator, and a consultant in storytelling and interactive fiction to the computer game and online entertainment industries.

From the Back Cover

This practical, hands-on book demonstrates how to create gorgeous and expressive imagery with the Processing programming language and environment. Processing is an accessible language even to non-programmers, including artists, designers, researchers, hobbyists, or anyone else looking to create images, animation, and interactions.Processing for Visual Artists shows every step veteran author Andrew Glassner takes as he guides each project from inspiration to reality (including mistakes he’s made along the way!). The resulting projects demonstrate why programming is such a powerful skill for self-expression and after working through the book novice programmers will be ready to strike off on their own.

Edition details

• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568817169
• ISBN 13: 9781568817163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 954