Making my way through the Drawing text recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to declare PFont objects for the fonts to be used in the Sketch and set the second parameter of the textFont function to determine the size of the text. For example, textFont […]
Month: February 2014
Working with images
Making my way through the Working with images recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to: use the loadImage function to load an image from my data folder into my Sketch declare a boolean (pixelMode) for the if test use the image function to display the […]
Screen redraw issues in Microsoft Word 2010 on Windows 7 as an unintentional minimalist design element. Nice.
Today’s Moves
An uncommon sight. Advertising on the inside one of Melbourne’s Metro Trains. This could be a test for a possible revenue stream for the franchise operator of our suburban railway network. I’ve seen advertising on the outside of trains before, but never on the inside. This is new. Also, the irony of an advertising campaign for […]
Today’s Moves
Working with colours
Making my way through the Working with colours recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the color function to create a variable of the type colour (c = colour variable), the stroke function to set the colour of the stroke, the fill function to […]
Today’s Moves
Similar content alert (SCA) and Duplicate content alert (DCA). Thinking out loud about writing and editing for the web via a Twitter conversation with my friend.
Coincidental colour (Again)
The coincidental colour match of the orange headphone cord and album artwork displayed on my phone. Again.
Drawing basic shapes
Making my way through the Drawing basic shapes recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned how to use the rect, ellipse, quad and triangle functions to draw basic geometric shapes. I also found it interesting how two for loops are used to create the grid background pattern. I’m curious […]
Keyboard interaction
Making my way through the Keyboard interaction recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about using keyPressed, keyReleased and keyTyped functions to assign keys on the keyboard to execute code and also a bit more about if tests and declaring variables, particularly changing their values when specified keys are […]