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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166726
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikolaus Gradwohl Nikolaus Gradwohl
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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 Briefing


In this project, we will use Processing to play and analyze music using the Minim framework (developed by Damien Di Fede). We will also use it to access the music data in real time and implement some audio visualizations. Minim already comes bundled with Processing, so we don't need to install a library for this mission.

We will create multiple music and timer-controlled visualization patterns and we will make our sketch switch between them as the music plays. Then we will turn them into a disco dance floor by turning the graphics we are creating into a texture for a 3D object. Finally, we will add the texture to the somewhat boring dance floor we created in the previous project for our stick figure dance company.

Why Is It Awesome?

When it comes to music visualizations, Processing is a very smart choice. The Minim library simplifies the required access to things such as beat detection and fast Fourier transformation, and Processing offers access to the most awesome 3D and...

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