About this item
The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of literacy that enables them to create new media for the present, and to imagine future media that are beyond the capacities of current software tools. This book introduces this new literacy by teaching computer programming within the context of the visual arts. It offers a comprehensive reference and text for Processing www.processing.org, an open-source programming language that can be used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and anyone who wants to program images, animation, and interactivity.
About the Author
REAS is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. With Ben Fry, he initiated Processing in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. More information can be found online at http://processing.org. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This work is archived at http://reas.com.
