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Creative Coding

Writing code that produces visuals or behavior, and changing its rules to explore ideas.

What is Creative Coding?

Writing code that produces visuals or behavior, and changing its rules to explore ideas.

What you learn

Change one rule at a time to see what each one does.

When it helps

you are making a visual through code and need to understand how a rule changes its movement, variation or form.

Use it at work

  1. Write the rules that produce the visual.
  2. Change one rule at a time.
  3. Save each version, and note what changed.
  4. Keep the rules that produce what you want.

Your output

When you explore with code, change one rule at a time and save each result, so you know what each rule does.

Watch for

Changing many settings at once and losing track of cause and effect.

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