AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SAMPLE
Your First Sketch
From The Book of Canvas
Who it is for: People with basic coding experience who want to make something visual.
Working manuscript · 2027–2028 Edition. The full book is forthcoming; text and illustrations may change.
This chapter gets one shape onto the screen. Along the way, it introduces the two functions that organize a basic p5.js sketch and the order in which shapes are painted.
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Make drawings that move in p5.js. Use noise, flow fields, particles, and pixels to build up each sketch.
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