Mike Bailey's Processing Page

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/processing

Latest update: July 11, 2024

Fill Out the Processing Camp Survey!

We need you all to fill out the Processing Camp Survey! Follow these steps:

1. Click here to get into the survey.
2. Click on the 3rd entry: Virtual "Processing" Camp, July 10-11, 2024
3. Enter your first and last name at the bottom of the screen (note: your responses will not be attached to your name -- we just want to be sure everyone filled the survey out)
4. Click on the black Next button and continue into the questions
5. Be sure to hit the Submit button at the bottom.

2024 Virtual (Online) Processing Campers:

Welcome to the 2024 Online Processing Camp! We're excited to have you here.

Camp is Wednesday July 10 - Thursday July 11, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon PDT. We start on time!

• Location: The Zoom-room to come to is:
  https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/8340727662?pwd=b01tZ0hJUzdHNUtrdTRqSkdwbG4zdz09

• Important to Know: You need to have tested Processing on your own machine before camp starts.
  To do that, go to your favorite web browser (Chrome works well), and navigate to: https://editor.p5js.org/

• You don't have to do anything with Processing just yet, just make sure you can get it running.
  We won't be taking time at the start of class to get your Processing up and working - we will dive right into using it.

• If you try this ahead of time and can't get it to run, email me at: mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

• We have two teaching assistants for the Processing Camp! They are Emma Ball and and Paul Simko. They are both super Computer Science students here at Oregon State University. We are lucky to have them!

• We will be following the notes below. Go ahead and take a peek if you want a head start. I will be fine-tuning these notes throughout this week, so check if the date on them has changed.

• Processing is a lot of things. We won't have time to cover them all. If there are parts of Processing that you are especially interested in learning, let me know at: mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu so that I can attempt to cover them.

• Any questions or concerns about the camp? Send me an email at mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

Daily Challenges for Processing Campers:

Wednesday Challenge:

• Make a scene with at least 3 shapes, each with a different color.
• Make a scene using a for-loop.
• Use an if-statement in making a scene.

• Read the mouse and keyboard and do something visual with those values.
• Work on your own project.
• Survey Forms.

The Notes:

These are the Processing notes we will be working through. You don't need to print these, but we will follow along with them.

We will be using a web-based version of Processing. You get at it by going to: https://editor.p5js.org/.

• One slide per page
• Two slides per page
• Four slides per page
• Six slides per page

Latest update of these notes: June 30, 2024

Quick References:

Processing Quick Reference Sheet	Here
A Simple List of Processing Variables and Functions	Here
A Fairly Complete List of Processing Variables and Functions, Sorted by Name	Here
A Fairly Complete List of Processing Variables and Functions, Sorted by Category	Here

Individual Note Sets from our University Processing Class

Intro to Processing	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Running Processing	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Processing Quick Reference Sheet	Here
A Simple List of Processing Variables and Functions	Here
Writing Processing Programs	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Variables and Loops	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
if-statements	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Reacting to the Mouse and Keyboard	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Drawing Arbitrary Polygons	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Drawing Text	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Transformations	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Images	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Drawing Circles and Regular Polygons	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
3D	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Randomness	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
De-bouncing the keyboard keys	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Polar Equations	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Arrays	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
Data	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
A Fairly Complete List of Processing Variables and Functions, Sorted by Name	Here
A Fairly Complete List of Processing Variables and Functions, Sorted by Category	Here

Projects from our University Processing Class

Draw Something Cool in 2D using Processing

Draw Something Cool in 2D using Processing and for-loops

Simple Painting Program

Simple Animation using Transformations

3D Animation using Transformations

Add Noise to Your Simple Painting Program

Polar Shapes

If you want a book, get this one!

https://www.amazon.com/Processing-Visual-Artists-Expressive-Interactive/dp/1568817169/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541098991&sr=1-10&keywords=glassner

The price is due to the fact that there are lots of color pages in it. There are cheaper Processing books, but they use black-and-white imagery, which makes it much harder to see what is going on.

Truth-in-advertising: Andrew Glassner is a long-time computer graphics friend of mine. Nevertheless, this is still the best Processing book I have seen. I would say that even if I disliked him.

Did you like these notes? Want to try some other fun K-12 stuff from Oregon State University?

• Blender notes -- serious modeling, rendering, and animation

• Scratch notes -- drag and drop programmiung with animation and sound, and even some game development

• SketchUp notes -- who would have ever guessed it was so easy to draw in 3D?

• TinkerCAD notes -- this is really good if you want to make models that can be 3D-printed

• A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics

Related college courses at Oregon State University:

• Intro to Computer Graphics

• Computer Graphics Shaders

• ParaView -- Interactive 3D Visualization

• Vulkan

• Parallel Programming (includes GPU programming)

• Computer Science Skills for Simulation and Game Programming

For more information, contact:
Mike Bailey
Oregon State University
Professor, Computer Science
Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-0505
mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu