Overview | Processing #

Awesome Creative Coding is and excellent resource on all things creative coding.

Creative Coding Tools/Environments/Frameworks #

I have listed some tools here under different categories. Some of them appear in multiple categories.

Frameworks/Libraries for text-based programming languages #

• p5.js
• Processing
• openFrameworks
• Cinder

Visual Programming Languages #

• TouchDesigner
• vvvv
• Pure Data
• Max
• Vuo
• Quartz Composer (sadly pretty much killed by Apple)
• Troikatronix Isadora
• Notch

Sound Programming #

• SuperCollider
• Pure Data
• Max
• SonicPi

Visual Effects (Realtime) #

• TouchDesigner
• Houdini
• Notch
• Unity
• Unreal Engine

Game Engines #

• Unity
• Unreal Engine

Courses in Aalto #

Processing #

• Computational Art and Design

p5.js #

• Computational Art and Design
• Programming for Visual Artists (TAITE)
• AXM-E2002 Creative computation for Visual Communication

TouchDesigner #

• Embodied Interaction
• Art & Media Studio: Audiovisual Studio

openFrameworks #

• Workshop period 3: Generative Media Coding

Pure Data #

• AXM-E6003 Composing with New Musical Instruments
• AXM-E6009 Procedural Audio

SuperCollider #

• AXM-E6006 IXI Workshop

Unity #

• Software Studies for Game Designers
• Coding Virtual Worlds

Unreal Engine #

Example done in class #

let theta;
function setup() {
  createCanvas(640, 360);
}

function draw() {
  background(0);
  stroke(255);
  let a = (mouseX/width) * 90;
  theta = radians(a);
  translate(width/2,height);
  line(0,0,0,-120);
  translate(0,-120);
  branch(120);
}

function branch(h){
  h *= 0.66; // h = h * 0.66;
  if(h>2){
    push();
    rotate(theta);
    line(0,0,0,-h);
    translate(0,-h);
    branch(h);
    pop();
    
    push();
    rotate(-theta);
    line(0,0,0,-h);
    translate(0,-h);
    branch(h);
    pop();
  }
}