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CHAPTER 5 Creative Coding and Processing In Chapter 4 , we went through the process for developing games with the Platino game engine. You have seen how we use the game engine features to work in different interactive ways in a game engine. We move ahead in this chapter and introduce creative coding. Creative Coding and Processing In this chapter, we start with creative coding. We first define the term and then move ahead with different frameworks for creative coding. We next focus on the creative coding language we are going to cover, Processing. We provide an introduction to Processing and show how the language has evolved, detail support for different platforms, and cover installing Processing in Windows. The following topics are covered in this chapter: • Creative coding and different frameworks. • Processing language. • Different platform support and installation on Windows. • We demonstrate with examples and build it for Android. What Is Creative Coding? Creative coding, as the name suggests, is an unusual way of representing our code. It is the combination of arts with code. Creative coding helps us in several ways. The styles are as follows: • Art installations in Billboards. • Projection mapping. • Special installation through interactive gestures. Art Installations Art installations are representations using 3D visualizing techniques and creative coding as the programming base (see Figure 5-1 ). The programming language generally used in art installations is Processing (which we introduce later). Art installation changes the perception of free space with projects brought about by creative coding. Art installations can be temporary or permanent. Some art installations that are permanent can be 3D printed after we have coded them with creative coding techniques. © Abhishek Nandy and Debashree Chanda 2016