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<h3>Creating</h3>

<p>Creating variables for colors that may be referred to

in the program by their name, rather than a number.</p>

<p><a href="http://processing.org/learning/basics/creating.html">Original Processing.org Example: Creating</a><br>

<div class="learning-demo"><script type="application/processing">

size(200, 200);

color inside = color(204, 102, 0);

color middle = color(204, 153, 0);

color outside = color(153, 51, 0);

rect(0, 0, 200, 200);

rect(40, 60, 120, 120);

rect(60, 90, 80, 80);

</script><canvas width="200" height="200"></canvas></div></p>

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<div class="code"><pre name="code" class="processing">// All Examples Written by Casey Reas</a> and Ben Fry</a>

// unless otherwise stated.

size(200, 200);

noStroke();

color inside = color(204, 102, 0);

color middle = color(204, 153, 0);

color outside = color(153, 51, 0);

// These statements are equivalent to the statements above.

// Programmers may use the format they prefer.

//color inside = #CC6600;

//color middle = #CC9900;

//color outside = #993300;

fill(outside);

rect(0, 0, 200, 200);

fill(middle);

rect(40, 60, 120, 120);

fill(inside);

rect(60, 90, 80, 80);</pre></div>