Book Description
If you know C++ this book takes your creative potential to a whole other level. The practical recipes show you how to create interactive and visually dynamic applications using Cinder which will excite and delight your audience.
- Learn powerful techniques for building creative applications using motion sensing and tracking
- Create applications using multimedia content including video, audio, images, and text
- Draw and animate in 2D and 3D using fast performance techniques
In Detail
Cinder is one of the most exciting frameworks available for creative coding. It is developed in C++ for increased performance and allows for the fast creation of visually complex, interactive applications.
"Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will show you how to develop interactive and visually dynamic applications using simple-to-follow recipes.
You will learn how to use multimedia content, draw generative graphics in 2D and 3D, and animate them in compelling ways.
Beginning with creating simple projects with Cinder, you will use multimedia, create animations, and interact with the user.
From animation with particles to using video, audio, and images, the reader will gain a broad knowledge of creating applications using Cinder.
With recipes that include drawing in 3D, image processing, and sensing and tracking in real-time from camera input, the book will teach you how to develop interesting applications.
"Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will give you the necessary knowledge to start creating projects with Cinder that use animations and advanced visuals.
Table of Contents
- Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- Introduction
- Creating a project for a basic application
- Creating a project for a screensaver application
- Creating a project for an iOS touch application
- Understanding the basic structure of an application
- Responding to mouse input
- Responding to key input
- Responding to touch input
- Accessing files dropped onto the application window
- Adjusting a scene after resizing the window
- Using resources on Windows
- Using resources on iOS and OS X
- Using assets
- 2. Preparing for Development
- 3. Using Image Processing Techniques
- 4. Using Multimedia Content
- 5. Building Particle Systems
- 6. Rendering and Texturing Particle Systems
- 7. Using 2D Graphics
- 8. Using 3D Graphics
- 9. Adding Animation
- Animating with the timeline
- Creating animation sequences with the timeline
- Animating along a path
- Aligning camera motion to a path
- Animating text – text as a mask for a movie
- Animating text – scrolling text lines
- Creating a flow field with Perlin noise
- Creating an image gallery in 3D
- Creating a spherical flow field with Perlin noise
- 10. Interacting with the User
- 11. Sensing and Tracking Input from the Camera
- 12. Using Audio Input and Output
- Index