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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517942
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Processing 2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Drawing Text, Curves, and Shapes in 2D 3. Drawing in 3D–Lights, Camera, and Action! 4. Working with Data 5. Exporting from Processing 6. Working with Video 7. Audio Visualization 8. Exploring Computer Vision 9. Exploring JavaScript Mode 10. Exploring Android Mode 11. Using Processing with Other Editors Index

Installing the OpenCV library


Until now, we've only used the standard Processing video library to do some basic computer vision. If you want to do some more advanced stuff, such as face recognition, you'll need to use the OpenCV library.

How to do it...

OpenCV for Processing and Java is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Everything you need to install the library can be found at http://ubaa.net/shared/processing/opencv/.

The first thing you need to do is install OpenCV. On Windows, you need to download the OpenCV release version 1.0 package and install everything on your computer. For Mac OS X, there is an OpenCV framework 1.1 available. Download the DMG file, open it, and install the package. On Linux, you need to download the OpenCV archive and compile/install everything yourself.

The second step in this process is to download the OpenCV Processing library, unzip it, and drag the folder to your Processing libraries folder. The folder structure should look like the following screenshot...

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