Processing Language for visuals

[Leitz]

O'Reilly sent out a note about a free class on Processing and Arduino. Well, they recommend a $75 hardware kit to fully get the benefit of Arduino, but it seems optional.

This got me started on Processing and so far it's rather fun. Given that I've got neither artistic talent nor coding greatness, I was able to make a simple sketch of a Type S in a few hours of tutorial reading and guesswork.

Here's the code that draws in on the screen and saves it in bofh PDF and JOG format:

Spoiler:

import processing.pdf.*;

void setup() {
size(250,400);
beginRecord(PDF, "type_s_scout.pdf");
background(255);
}

void draw() {
noFill();
triangle(125,50,200,300,50,300);

fill(150);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(125,250,30,40);

fill(0);
rect(75,300,20,10);
rect(155,300,20,10);

rect(120,220,3,20);
rect(127,220,3,20);

triangle(125,105,135,150,115,150);

endRecord();
save("type_s_scout.jpg");

}

So far the biggest downer seems to be a lack of an active IRC channel. The Processing forum is hokey, but we'll see how it goes. I'm off to see what I can do to learn OOP and make this more malleable.

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