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Processing Month, Day 22 - Patterns
22 May 2011
Today we'll take a look at drawing patterns. I'll be using colorLib and the COLOURlovers API to color the artwork in an interesting way. You can download colorLib and install it in your libraries folder.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 21 - Fitting Rectangles
21 May 2011
Today I'm going to share an algorithm I wrote to create a digital artwork based on a drawing from one of my sketchbooks. I'm not going to discuss the algorithm in detail, I'll let you learn from the code. This algorithm might be useful for architects, urban planners or graphic designer looking for a new approach to grids. Below are the original drawing and the output of the algorithm.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 20 - Optimize your Workflow with Processing Tools
20 May 2011
Today we're going to take a break from coding and discuss Processing Tools. You can find these tools under the Tools menu. You probably know about the Create Font tool and the Color Selector tool, both included with Processing. You can find all available tools on the Processing website.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 19 - Exporting PDF Files for Lasercutting
19 May 2011
Today, we'll take a look at how we can use the PDF library to export our sketch for lasercutting. This sketch won't display anything on the screen. It will save a PDF file directly to your sketch folder. For lasercutting, we need to define two colors: one for cutting (RGB Red) and one for engraving (RGB Black).Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 18 - Finishing the Game
18 May 2011
We'll finish our little "Avoid the Asteroids" game today. I've changed the render method for the spaceship so we can draw a star when the spaceship gets hit by an asteroid.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 17- Falling Asteroids
17 May 2011
Today will be about animating asteroids and setting up the basic scoreboard for our little game. The Asteroids class looks almost the same as the Bubbles class from day 8.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 16 - Building a Spaceship
16 May 2011
For the next few days, we'll take a look at designing a game with basic keyboard interaction. Today we'll focus on drawing a cool spaceship and move it around with the keys. Our spaceship will be a triangle, just like in the arcade classic Asteroids.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 15 - Rounded Rectangles
15 May 2011
For the past two years, rounded corners have been hot in web design. Today's sketch will be about creating rounded rectangles with Processing. We already used the vertex() function in a few of the sketches this month. Today we'll add bezierVertex() to create the rounded corners for our shape.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 14 - Manipulating Circles
14 May 2011
Yesterday we've drawn regular polygons. If you draw a regular polygon with 360 points, you get something that gets really close to a circle. If we take that same function, and manipulate the radius with a sine wave or cosine wave, we can get really interesting results.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 13 - Regular Polygons
13 May 2011
Today we're going to write a flexible function to draw regular polygons. As Processing only offers basic shapes like ellipses, rectangles and triangles, it might be handy to have a collection of functions to draw other shapes.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 12 - Painting, Part 3
12 May 2011
For the last sketch in this painting series, we are going to take a similar approach as the sketch from yesterday, but we'll create an autonomous painting system. We'll create a Brush class so we can create multiple brushes, and let them do the painting for us.Tags: processing, tutorial
Processing Month, Day 11 - Painting, Part 2
11 May 2011
The brush algorithm we'll use today will be the same as the one we used yesterday in Painting, Part 1. But we won't use the HSB color mode anymore. We'll get our colors from an image, just like we did in the Circular Pixels sketch on day 9.Tags: processing, tutorial
