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Manipulating SVG files

Making my way through the Manipulating SVG files recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned:

  • more about using the shape function to draw shapes in the display window
  • how to declare the PShape object and create custom variables (snowFlake, small1 to small6 and big1) and the disableStyle, enableStyle, fill and stroke functions to manipulate discrete parts of the SVG loaded into the Sketch.
  • how to use getChild to get text (small1 to small6) from the id attribute of each shape in the SVG file.

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Maths functions

Making my way through the Maths functions recipe from the Processing 2 Creative programming cookbook source code on GitHub. In this recipe I learned about declaring variables and the abs, ceil, floor, round, sq, sqrt, min, max, and dist functions. I also learned how to use the println function to display output of functions to the Processing console window. Good for debugging a Sketch!

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For this recipe the Processing window displayed at runtime isn’t used, but I still wanted to use the size() function.