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Processing, second edition: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (Mit Press)
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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.
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SUE.C, Larry Cuba, Mark Hansen, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jürg Lehni, LettError, Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, Benjamin Maus, Manfred Mohr, Ash Nehru, Josh On, Bob Sabiston, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jared Tarbell, Steph Thirion, Robert Winter
- ISBN-109780262028288
- ISBN-13978-0262028288
- Edition2nd ed.
- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication dateDecember 19, 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.13 x 1.31 x 9.31 inches
- Print length662 pages
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About the Author
Ben Fry is Principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston. Together, Reas and Fry cofounded Processing in 2001.
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- ASIN : 026202828X
- Publisher : The MIT Press
- Publication date : December 19, 2014
- Edition : 2nd ed.
- Language : English
- Print length : 662 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780262028288
- ISBN-13 : 978-0262028288
- Item Weight : 2.46 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.13 x 1.31 x 9.31 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #270,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #93 in Computer Graphics
- #93 in Digital Art
- #114 in Web Design (Books)
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About the authors

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree from MIT’s Media Lab, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Ben’s work has appeared in museums such as the Whitney, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Museum of Modern Art, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have illustrated articles for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the journal Nature. In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design; he was also selected as one of Fast Company‘s 50 Most Influential Designers in America and as one of Slate‘s Top Right. He has lectured on data, design, and programming on five continents, and is the author of three books.

REAS is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. With Ben Fry, he initiated Processing in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. More information can be found online at http://processing.org. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This work is archived at http://reas.com.
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