Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 2: Preparing for Development
• Introduction
• Setting up a GUI for tweaking parameters
• Saving and loading configurations
• Making a snapshot of the current parameter state
• Using MayaCamUI
• Using 3D space guides
• Communicating with other software
• Preparing your application for iOS

• Chapter 3: Using Image Processing Techniques
• Introduction
• Transforming image contrast and brightness
• Integrating with OpenCV
• Detecting edges
• Detecting faces
• Detecting features in an image
• Converting images to vector graphics

• Chapter 4: Using Multimedia Content
• Introduction
• Loading and displaying video
• Creating a simple video controller
• Saving window content as an image
• Saving window animations as video
• Saving window content as a vector graphics image
• Saving high resolution images with the tile renderer
• Sharing graphics between applications

• Chapter 5: Building Particle Systems
• Introduction
• Creating a particle system in 2D
• Applying repulsion and attraction forces
• Simulating particles flying in the wind
• Simulating flocking behavior
• Making our particles sound reactive
• Aligning particles to a processed image
• Aligning particles to the mesh surface
• Creating springs

• Chapter 6: Rendering and Texturing Particle Systems
• Introduction
• Texturing particles
• Adding a tail to our particles
• Creating a cloth simulation
• Texturing a cloth simulation
• Texturing a particle system using point sprites and shaders
• Connecting the dots
• Connecting particles with spline

• Chapter 7: Using 2D Graphics
• Drawing 2D geometric primitives
• Drawing arbitrary shapes with the mouse
• Implementing a scribbler algorithm
• Implementing 2D metaballs
• Animating text around curves
• Adding a blur effect
• Implementing a force-directed graph

• Chapter 8: Using 3D Graphics
• Introduction
• Drawing 3D geometric primitives
• Rotating, scaling, and translating
• Drawing to an offscreen canvas
• Drawing in 3D with the mouse
• Adding lights
• Picking in 3D
• Creating a height map from an image
• Creating a terrain with Perlin noise
• Saving mesh data

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 10: Interacting with the User
• Introduction
• Creating an interactive object that responds to the mouse
• Adding mouse events to our interactive object
• Creating a slider
• Creating a responsive text box
• Dragging, scaling, and rotating objects using multi-touch

• Chapter 11: Sensing and Tracking Input from the Camera
• Capturing from the camera
• Tracking an object based on color
• Tracking motion using optical flow
• Object tracking
• Reading QR code
• Building UI navigation and gesture recognition with Kinect
• Building an augmented reality with Kinect

• Chapter 12: Using Audio Input and Output
• Generating a sine oscillator
• Generating sound with frequency modulation
• Adding a delay effect
• Generating sound upon the collision of objects
• Visualizing FFT
• Making sound-reactive particles

• Appendix: Integrating with Bullet Physics
• This chapter is available as a downloadable file at: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Integrating_with_Bullet_Physics.pdf

• Index