Casey Reas is hoogleraar Design Media Arts aan UCLA. Hij is ook coauteur van Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Zijn werk overbrugt de disciplines van beeldende kunst en programmeren. Hij wordt erkend voor zijn bijdragen op het gebied van computationele creativiteit en 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.