Casey Reas ist Professor für Design Media Arts an der UCLA. Er ist auch Co-Autor von Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Seine Arbeit verbindet die Disziplinen bildende Kunst und Programmierung. Er ist anerkannt für seine Beiträge zu den Bereichen Computational Creativity und 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.