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Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook

Chapter 2. Preparing for Development

In this chapter, we will cover:

Setting up a GUI for tweaking parameters
Saving and loading configurations
Making a snapshot of the current parameter state
Using MayaCamUI
Using 3D space guides
Communicating with other software
Preparing your application for iOS

Key benefits

Learn powerful techniques for building creative applications using motion sensing and tracking

Create applications using multimedia content including video, audio, images, and text

Draw and animate in 2D and 3D using fast performance techniques

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Cinder is one of the most exciting frameworks available for creative coding. It is developed in C++ for increased performance and allows for the fast creation of visually complex, interactive applications."Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will show you how to develop interactive and visually dynamic applications using simple-to-follow recipes.You will learn how to use multimedia content, draw generative graphics in 2D and 3D, and animate them in compelling ways. Beginning with creating simple projects with Cinder, you will use multimedia, create animations, and interact with the user.From animation with particles to using video, audio, and images, the reader will gain a broad knowledge of creating applications using Cinder.With recipes that include drawing in 3D, image processing, and sensing and tracking in real-time from camera input, the book will teach you how to develop interesting applications."Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will give you the necessary knowledge to start creating projects with Cinder that use animations and advanced visuals.

What you will learn

Process and analyze images and draw graphics in 2D or 3D

Create applications that use multimedia content including video, images, audio, and text

Draw and render particles to create powerful simulations

Animate using tweens, timeline, paths, and cameras

Create interesting animations with particle systems and physics

Interact with the user by tracking and sensing from the camera in real-time

Generate audio and create sound visualizations

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Efrain Astudillo Jan 11, 2014

Excellent book you can learn a lot with the basic theory that contains it. It's really easy to learn and very well explain with images. Believe me, you won't bore with this book

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john Jul 07, 2013

Hi , i just want to start by a thankful to the author for his book. I'm new to Cinder, already i've done some projects with Processing and OpenFrameworks. This book is a very good starting point. In the first chapters everything is describe to start with cinder : make a new project ( for OSX WINDOWS , IOS). Then it work's like a real cookbook , " what you wanna do today :) ? " so you can jump between the chapters to make what you want ( and there is a lot of things, more than i could thought) . I've read some of chapter a this time and i discovered a powerful environment and great tips and workflow process .Each chapter is constructed with a "how to" , the part where you write the code with some little explanation of the different parts so you start with the magic and it's good to learn then a "how it works" to explain the code with subtlety and for the end some stuff to have More Fun with this code !!!!So what i think ? I recommended this book for anybody who wants to start or got an advanced level with Cinder.

Thomas Helzle Jun 20, 2013

I work with 3D for 20+ years, have coded in C and C++, Processing and other langauages and recently found out about Cinder through the work of Robert Hodgin (http://roberthodgin.com/) who's a real master of the art.The framework appealed to me, the available tutorials are very well written and inspiring...But you may know the moment when you understood the basics and the principles, but suddenly find out when you try to create your own projects, that you don't have the right questions to ask? You want to do something specific but are not sure yet where to look. The main cinder documentation beyond the tutorials and basic explanations is rather nerdy: namespaces, classes, files... so there's a serious gap between the tutorials and this main part.I know I can hack myself through this (and did so in the past), learn a lot by trial and error about things I never imagined, but it will take me a rather long time and sometimes this time would be better spent on other work.Enter stage left: "Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" :-)On the cinder forum, the book was offered for review. I read the chapter list and it read basically like everything I wanted to do with Cinder - Not bad. So I applied and got the book.Now I can be pretty critical with books. Often they seem to be written for dummies or repeat themself all the time or overexplain stuff. I get impatient with such books really fast. ;-)No such things here: There isn't even a "hello world" example (which is a good sign IMO).From the first lines of code, you are expected to know what common stuff does and how things work in general programming.And right from the first chapter you do useful things: create your application files with Tinderbox, respond to mouse, key and touch input, deal with drag and drop, resize the window adjusting your content and use resources on windows and OSX/iOS. And that's just the first chapter of 12!The book continues at the same pace showing how to create a GUI, save and load parameters and presets as XML, use 3D space. In the third chapter you already use OpenCV to track features and recognize faces in images...It's well written, short and to the point, perfect for people like me who want to create right away without going through explanations what variables are...So to my great pleasure, I can wholeheartedly recommend this book to people coming from processing or other frameworks that have a general understanding of coding and audio-visual art, but want to take the next step with this very powerful C++ library.And that Cinder is worth your while was nicely proven some days ago, when it won the first "Innovation Grand Prix" at the "Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity".Have fun creating!

Sarith Demuni Jul 30, 2013

The title of this book is exactly what it is -- a cookbook -- and boy is it delicious.That said, I would definitely follow the advice in the product description -- I think this book is a great buy for a beginner, but maybe don't crack it open until after you've spent a few months with creative coding (and C++).BUT -- if you've spent a good amount of time playing with other creative coding frameworks like Processing or openFrameworks, this book is a fantastic run-through of how Cinder handles things. More importantly, and wonderfully, it's chock full of great (general) creative coding recipes. Literally every single lesson is useful in some way and the ideas here are easily translatable to any creative coding language or framework. The book also manages to cut right to the good stuff after some of the intro materials which, as a post-beginner, I really appreciate.

SuJo Jul 16, 2013

Creative Coding Cookbook[...]I absolutely LOVED reading this book! I really enjoy the cause and effect style the author uses. When you a presented with an issue and given the work around it really helps cement your knowledge. All of the examples in the book are all usable and you can adapt them as you learn more.I like to keep my reviews short and simple but this book really is worth the cost!

Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook: If you know C++ this book takes your creative potential to a whole other level. The practical recipes show you how to create interactive and visually dynamic applications using Cinder which will excite and delight your audience.

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