I would like to thank my family—wife Svetlana and son Timofey for their patience and suggestions. And many thanks to my parents and grandparents for great pirozhki, which was a necessary part of the book-writing process.

My creative coding experience and the desire to write the book appeared, thankfully, to artist Igor Sodazot, who invented and designed most of the interactive installations, which I program for him using openFrameworks. He is the coauthor of most of the book's examples and its video/audio contents.

Thanks to my scientific supervisor Victor Borisovich Kostousov for expending so many efforts to shape my scientific style of thinking and writing.

I would like to thank my colleagues working at interactive media art, experimental music, and dance fields—Prof. Yoichi Nagashima, Tatyana Komarova, Ekaterina Zharinova, and my first curator Ksenia Fedorova, for their teaching and influence.

And big thanks to my friends and scientific colleagues for supporting me and helping me with ideas: Nikolay Mikhalev, Sergey Samuraev, Kirill Kostousov, Fedor Kornilov, Elizaveta Sayfutdinova, and Prof. Pavel Konstantinovich Kuznetzov.

This book would be impossible without hard work on proof-reading by Angelina Poptzova, and technical reviewing by Mathias Paumgarten and Tim Pulver.

Thanks to Packt Publishing, who made this book possible.

Thanks to the openFrameworks' creators and openFrameworks community for developing this amazing toolkit.

All the book's examples were developed together with Igor Sodazot, except the Dancing cloud example, which is based on the idea of nCode installation by Andrey Krel, Igor Sodazot, Denis Perevalov, and Pavel Tikhonenko (2011, Moscow).

All the video and audio content for the examples were made by/with Igor Sodazot, except:

Image sunflower.png, which was contributed by ©iStockphoto.com/Andrew Johnson

Music track surface.wav, which was contributed by Ilya Orange (soundcloud.com/ilyaorange)