Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

You're reading from   Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot Learn Processing with exciting and engaging projects to make your computer talk, see, hear, express emotions, and even design physical objects

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166726
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Nikolaus Gradwohl Nikolaus Gradwohl
Author Profile Icon Nikolaus Gradwohl
Nikolaus Gradwohl
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Romeo and Juliet FREE CHAPTER 2. The Stick Figure Dance Company 3. The Disco Dance Floor 4. Smilie-O-Mat 5. The Smilie-O-Mat Controller 6. Fly to the Moon 7. The Neon Globe 8. Logfile Geo-visualizer 9. From Virtual to Real Index

Mission Accomplished


Our mission was to implement a sketch that makes it easier to communicate the current emotional status of a user. We have accomplished this by creating a smiley that has various controllable facial parameters. In task 1, we implemented the drawing routine that generates our smiley, but changing the parameters meant changing a variable and running the sketch again.

To tackle this problem, we added some GUI elements to our sketch in task 2 to simplify the interaction with our sketch for the user. We didn't use any existing GUI libraries, but instead created the sliders from scratch by implementing the mouse event callback functions and drawing some rectangles.

In task 3, we created the necessary code to authenticate our app with twitter.com and created a method that allows our app to post status updates for a Twitter user. We created a consumer key and a consumer secret key on the Twitter developer site and asked the user for permission to tweet using a request URL and pin...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image