Getting Started With Processing and Processing Creative Coding and Generative Art

Awesome Generative Art

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Manually curated collection of Generative Fine art resources, tools and shiny things.

Tools
- Visual programming languages
- Frameworks, Libraries, Engines, Languages
- VJing software
- Codecs
- Seqensors
- Sound programming languages
- Software controllers
- Other tools
- Hardware
  - Platforms
  - Controllers
Learning Resources
- Books
  - Theory
  - Do
- Courses
Video Channels
Selected artists
Communities
Work
Events
Press

Tools

Visual programming languages

vvvv [Win]
Bear upon designer [Mac, Win]
Max [Mac, Win]
Pure Data [Mac, Win, Linux]
Quartz Composer [Mac]
Vuo [Mac]

Frameworks, libraries, engines, languages

Processing [Mac, Win, Linux, Android]
Processing Python Mode [Mac, Win, Linux]
OpenFrameworks [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
Cinder [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android]
three.js [Web]
Paper.js [Web]
p5.js [Web]
Scriptographer
Unity [Mac, Win]
KodeLife [Mac, Win, Linux]

Vjing software

VDMX [Mac]
Resolume [Mac, Win]
Modul8 [Mac]
CoGe VJ [Mac]
MadMapper [Mac]
Mitti [Mac]
TouchViZ [iOS]

Codecs

DXV codec [Mac, Win]
HAP codec [Mac, Win]

Seqensors

Vezér [Mac]
Ableton Live [Mac, Win]
D3

Audio programming languages

SuperCollider [Mac, Win, Linux]
Csound [Mac, Win, Linux, iOS, Android, Web]
ChucK [Mac, Win, Linux]
TidalCycles [Mac, Win, Linux]
Sonic Pi [Mac, Win, Linux, Raspberry Pi]
Reaktor [Mac, Win]

Software controllers

TouchOSC [iOS, Android]

Other tools

Syphon [Mac]
Spout [Win]

Hardware

Platforms

Arduino
Raspberry Pi

Controllers

Kinect
Leap Motion

Learning Resources

Books

Theory

New Media Art [history]
Art and Electronic Media [history]
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Fine art [history]
Aesthetic Computing [history]
Internet Art (World of Art) [history]
Digital Fine art (World of Art) [history]
Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media (Berg New Media Series) [history]
Art Pocket Digital Art [history]
The Earth of Digital Fine art [history]
Grade+Lawmaking in Pattern, Art, and Architecture [history]
10 Impress CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO x [history]
Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Fine art and Blueprint history]

Practise

Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js [algorithms, processing]
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition [processing]
Brand: Getting Started with Processing, 2d Edition [processing]
Make: Getting Started with p5.js [p5.js]
Make: Getting Started with Processing.py [processing.py]
Learning Processing, 2d Edition: A Beginner'southward Guide to Programming Images, Blitheness, and Interaction [processing]
The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing [processing]
Visualizing Data
The SparkFun Guide to Processing
Processing: Artistic Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2
Processing for Visual Artists: How to Create Expressive Images and Interactive Art [processing]
Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation) [processing]
The Essential Guide to Processing for Wink Developers [processing]
Programming Interactivity
Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing [processing]
Algorithms for Visual Design Using the Processing Linguistic communication [processing]
Information-driven Graphic Design: Artistic Coding for Visual Advice
Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your globe
Making Things See: 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
Kinect in Motion - Sound and Visual Tracking by Example [kinect, c#]
Kinect Hacks: Tips & Tools for Motion and Design Detection [kinect, processing, openframeworks]
Showtime Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0: Movement and Depth Sensing for Natural User Interfaces [kinect]
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide [kinect, c#]
Kinect Open Source Programming Secrets: Hacking the Kinect with OpenNI, NITE, and Coffee [kinect]
Human Gait Recognition Using Body Measures and Joints Angles: A Written report Using Microsoft Kinect [kinect]
Start Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK (Adept'due south Voice in Microsoft) [kinect]
Arduino and Kinect Projects: Design, Build, Blow Their Minds (Technology in Action) [kinect, arduino]
Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (Developer Reference) [kinect, c#]
Augmented Reality with Kinect [kinect, ar]
Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces (Technology in Action) [kinect]
Hacking the Kinect (Engineering science in Action) [kinect]
Learning Quartz Composer: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Motion Graphics with Quartz Composer [quartz composer]
Rapid Android Development: Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing
Processing ii: Creative Programming Cookbook [processing]
Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot [processing]
Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform (Make)
Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing
Physical Calculating: Sensing and Controlling the Physical Earth with Computers
Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design
Einführung ins Programmieren mit Processing (De)
Processing - eine Einführung in die Programmierung (De)
Programming for Artists (Ru) FREE
The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe
Prototyping Interfaces: Interaktives Skizzieren mit vvvv [vvvv]
Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Etch, and Play [ml, gan]
GANs in Action: Deep learning with Generative Adversarial Networks [ml, gan]
Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2: Create images, text, and music with VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, Transformer models [ml, gan]
Easily-On Epitome Generation with TensorFlow: A applied guide to generating images and videos using deep learning [ml, gan]
Generative Art: Algorithms as Artistic Tool (Art & Artists)
Coding Art: The Four Steps to Artistic Programming with the Processing Language (Blueprint Thinking) [processing]

Courses

Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
openFrameworks Tutorial Series
The Arduino Platform and C Programming
Interfacing with the Raspberry Pi
Getting started with Augmented Reality
Creative Coding
Survey of Music Technology
Learn to Lawmaking Electronic Music Tools with Javascript
Automobile Learning for Musicians and Artists [ml]
Machine Learning for Artists [ml]
Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow [ml]
Advanced JS: Natural Simulations
Pixar in a Box - Effects
Programming MAX: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts
inconvergent · A Written report of Generative Algorithms
Building a Real Application With Kinect [kinect]
Kinect Interaction with WPF and Across [kinect]
Developing for Jump Motion in C# [bound motility]
Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for Games and Interactive Systems [audio, chuck]
Sound Synthesis Using Reaktor [sound, reaktor]
The Nature of Code [p5.js]
Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists [audio, chuck]
Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js [p5.js]
The Arduino Platform and C Programming [arduino]
Interfacing with the Arduino [arduino]
3D Models for Virtual Reality [vr, unity]
Games, Sensors and Media [ios]
How Virtual Reality (VR) Works [vr]
Interactive 3D Graphics [3d, webgl, 3.js]

Websites

Creative Applications Network
OpenProcessing
Create Digital Music/Move
Field
Lumen

Selected artists

Featured / United Visual Artists
Anton Marini aka vade
Robert Hodgin aka flight404
Antivj
onformative

Communities

Generative Art Slack

Video Channels

The Coding Train by Daniel Shiffman
Acoustic Performance
LeCollagiste VJ group on Vimeo
TouchDesigner group on Vimeo
Processing group on Vimeo
MadMapper grouping on Vimeo
Syphon group on Vimeo

Piece of work

Job board on creativeapplications.internet
vj booking

Events

OFFF
Resonate Festival
The Grey Expanse Festival
FIBER Festival
Mapping Festival
Eyeo Festival
NODE
MUTEK
Live Performers Meeting
Berlin Atonal
Ars Electronica
Betoken Festival
La Fête des Lumières

Press

HOLO magazine
Make magazine
The MagPi magazine

Contribute

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License

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