Electronic Music II: Programming and Electronics for Art & Music

07 February 2013

Programming: Intro to Programming

• Various ways people use Processing
• Standard (but pretty anyway)
• -- Marius Unlekker
• real-looking digital video
• -- toxi
• Generative ART
• -- Jared Tarbell
• -- Tom Beddard
• --  1  2
• Good old mockery
• -- Justin Manor
• fun
• -- tendrils
• image manipulation
• -- White Glove Tracking
• interactive applets
• -- Inequality
• data visualization:
• -- Max Planck Research Network
• -- Video Redux
• a lot more - www.processing.org/exhibition
• Learning - good resource - Dan Shiffman
• Also where to find reference
• But seriously, it's just fun. Play. PLAY DAMMIT!!!
• The basic structure of a program
• Drawing Lines and Circles and Squares and how to figure out how to draw things we don't cover (ie, how to use the help)
• size(), background(), strokeWeight(), stroke(), fill(), line(), rect(), ellipse(), mousePressed(), mouseClicked()
• Dealing with Loops! - draw things, and make them look like they're moving.
• Make things move for real
• Dealing with Classes!
• 3D- translate(), pushMatrix(), popMatrix()

HERE's a zipped folder of all the sketches from class today.

Assignment: DUE Wednesday Feb 13th

Make something in Processing- try to make something which the outcome is a surprise to you- and let this generate ideas for more projects. Think process-oriented.

Post your code to Courseworks.

REMEMBER - The Processing Help is your best friend (figuratively speaking (if it is actually your best friend come talk to us - we can help)), so it should be open and ready to use at all times!