diff --git a/p5.html.markdown b/p5.html.markdown index fa53dce2..61fe0705 100644 --- a/p5.html.markdown +++ b/p5.html.markdown @@ -1 +1,55 @@ +--- +category: tool +tool: p5 +contributors: + - ["Amey Bhavsar", "https://github.com/ameybhavsar24"] +filename: p5.js +--- p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of [Processing](http://processing.org"), to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today's web. +Since p5 is a JavaScript library, you should learn [Javascript](https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/) first. +```js +/////////////////////////////////// +// p5.js has two important functions to work with. + +function setup() { +// the setup function gets executed just once when the window is loaded +} +function draw() { +// the draw function gets called every single frame. This means that for a frameRate(30) it would get called 30 times per second. +} + +// the following code explains all features + +function setup() { + +createCanvas(640, 480); // creates a new canvas element with 640px as width as 480px as height +background(128); // changes the background color of the canvas, can accept rgb values like background(100,200,20) else grayscale values like background(0) = black or background(255) = white + +} + +function draw() { + +ellipse(10,10, 50,50); // creates a ellipse at the 10px from the left and 10px from the top with width adn height as 50 each, so its basically a cirle. +//remember in p5.js the origin is at the top-left corner of the canvas + + if (mouseIsPressed) { + // mouseIsPressed is a boolean variable that changes to true if the mouse buttton is pressed down at that instant + + fill(0); // fill refers to the innner color or filling color of whatever shape you are going to draw next + + } else { + + fill(255); // you can give in rgb values like fill(72, 240, 80) to get colors, else a single values determines the grayscale where fill(255) stands for #FFF(white) and fill(0) stands for #000(black) + + } + + ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 80, 80); + // mouseX is the x-coordinate of the mouse's current position and mouseY is the y-coordinate of the mouse's current position + + // the above code creates a circle wherever mouse's current position and fills it either black or white based on the mouseIsPressed +} + +``` +## Further Reading +* [p5.js | get started](http://p5js.org/get-started/) The official documentation +* [Code! Programming for Beginners with p5.js - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWkPOfnGsw&vl=en) Introduction and Coding challenges using Processing and p5.js by Coding Train