Casey Reas is a Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA. He is also the coauthor of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. His work bridges the disciplines of visual art and programming. He is recognized for his contributions to the fields of computational creativity and new media art.
An introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts that also serves as a reference and text for Processing, an open-source programming language designed for creating images, animation, and interactivity.
"Updated for Processing 3.0"--Page 4 of cover.
Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment, this book demonstrates methods for representing data on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more.