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Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts,freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing. The code is written to be both cross platform (PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone) and cross compiler. The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. There are very few classes, and inside of those classes, there are very few functions. The code has been implemented so that within the classes there are minimal cross-referening, making it quite easy to rip out and reuse, if you need, or to extend. More Info















Created by James Alliban, Nova is an experimental study of the slit-scan technique with a particular focus on emphasising its spacial and temporal properties.
17/12/2014Earlier this year, Resonate festival was the host to Transcranial, a CAN initiated project bringing Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald to Belgrade for two weeks to work on a new performance piece, creating a bridge between three festivals in Europe.
05/11/2014In the recent months Mark Wheeler has been working on a series of visual sound experiments by creating openFrameworks apps that you can ‘play’ visually, generating animations from MIDI data….
23/09/2014Created by Kyle McDonald, “Sharing Faces” uses a megapixel surveillance camera and custom software to match the face locations of the persons looking at the screen. As the person moves, new images are pulled from the database matching the new location and create a mirror-like image of yourself using the images of others.
27/08/2014An abstract representation of this landscape is created from a matrix of 529 acrylic pipes piercing the ceiling between the first and the second floor, creating organic rock-like formations on the first floor reflected as an ocean surface on the second.
18/08/2014Generative Scarves for iOS includes a procedural algorithm commonly used to digitally generate patterns of the natural world, sampled into a bespoke application and used to create unique print for an individual scarf.
01/08/2014Every once in a while a project comes along that will change how we think, discuss and produce digital art. Four+ years in development, FRAMED* will not just be a canvas, but a platform and a community hub for the art of our generation.
21/07/2014Created by Ed Burton, Icon do better takes on a smart social twist of classic game combined with icon making.
21/07/2014Play the World invites visitors to perform with a keyboard that finds samples with the same note in near realtime from web radio stations around the world.
08/07/2014In the former building of the Newspaper BN De Stem, the installation created by Tim Knapen & indianen, allows visitors to collaboratively create mini publications.
05/05/2014Created by the panGenerator collective, Macrofilm is a permanent interactive installation for The Museum of The History of Polish Jews that combines traditional, tangible experience of browsing through old archives with subtly augmented digital experience.
16/04/2014Wake Up With the World is a an iOS application that turns your wake up alarm into musical collaborative experience. When you wake your GPS coordinates are translated into musical notes and combined with those of every other person waking up at the same moment as you.
14/04/2014Fractal Film includes a very precisely choreographed scene, shot in very high definition (5K) at eight different angles, shown always differently using custom based software that chooses rules at random and follows them.
28/02/2014Project explores narratives through colour, line, and form found in geographic satellite imagery. Utilising Google Earth together with custom software, the final install spans over 27 HD screens pointing locations of the films that have been produced by IFP.
23/01/2014425 hanging pendants located in the new HQ of the Center for Strategic and International Studies visualise global data.
06/01/2014Machine that uses Arduino controlled ball dispensers, motorised rotating steel plates and LED lights to create a nexus between electronic music and a sound responsive mechanical object.
28/11/2013Kinematics is a system for 3D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules. The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure using 3D printing.
26/11/2013The Raspberry Pi is a very exciting low cost computing platform aimed at the educational market. It offers reasonable performance in a small package at a price of $25, making it very attractive for creative computing projects. Here we show you how to run openFrameworks on the Raspberry Pi.
21/11/2013John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes in an interactive Album App that tells the story of John Lennon’s life changing journey sailing through a mid-Atlantic storm to Bermuda in June 1980, the creative discovery during his time on the island and the artistic collaboration from abroad with wife Yoko Ono at home in New York.
15/11/2013inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
13/11/2013Developed by the italian interaction designer at Fabrica, Angelo Semeraro, ‘Sadly by your side’ is a music album where each song can be endlessly transformed depending on the images you focus on with your camera.
14/10/2013Looking at a Horse is about the context and experience of viewing art, it changes its appearance depending on where it is located and who is viewing it.
08/10/2013The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner made entirely of Lego, but if you take a photo of it with a smartphone, and thanks to openFrameworks and openCV all of the events and timings are synchronised to an online, digital calendar.
30/09/2013The software created was a gesture-based, “keyframeless” animation system, which uses soft-body dynamics to create motion in the same way you would with puppets – by literally grabbing bits of the 3D mesh and pulling it around with the mouse, and recording live.
10/09/2013Unsigned Mirror is an application for Mac and Windows that allows you to create a slit-scan image by dragging an image to the mirror object in the window.
29/08/2013Kenichi Yoneda aka Kynd shows latest watercolour experiments at the recent openFrameworks Developer Conference held at YCAM as a part of the Yagamuchi Mini Market Faire.
15/08/2013This project, a collaboration between Dentsu, Honda Motor and Rhizomatiks brings back Senna’s engine sound from that lap 24 years ago in the form of an installation set on the original Suzuka circuit that uses light and sound.
12/08/2013Students at the RCA show a prototype for digital interface built into a custom dining table that shows players which foods to eat and when. The game detects whether they’ve eaten the correct food by measuring the food’s resistance on the fork.
07/08/2013When Niklas Roy was invited to show My Little Piece of Privacy at Sherbrooke’s Media Art Biennia lÉspace [IM] Média, he decided that he had to modify it slightly. Surrounded by many abandoned shop fronts, his installation was to set up in one of them and as nobody likes to stroll in roads with empty shop windows he wanted help this retail space find a new tenant.
06/08/2013Study of real-time 3D Internet is an experiment that explores interaction on the web from the 3rd point perspective. As the user navigates the internet, he/she can project beyond the two dimensional screen into three-dimensional environment recorded by the Kinect.
05/08/2013Created by James Alliban, Nova is an experimental study of the slit-scan technique with a particular focus on emphasising its spacial and temporal properties.
Tags: depth of field / featured / James Alliban / leap motion / ofxFastFboReader / ofxLeapMotion2 / ofxPostProcessing / ofxUI / openFrameworks / process / slit scan / slitscan / surface
Earlier this year, Resonate festival was the host to Transcranial, a CAN initiated project bringing Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald to Belgrade for two weeks to work on a new performance piece, creating a bridge between three festivals in Europe.
Tags: can_labs / Daito Manabe / Events / face substitution / featured / kikk festival / Klaus Obermaier / Kyle McDonald / MaxMSP / openFrameworks / performance / project / resonate / resonate festival / resonate2014 / software / STRP Biennale / theatre / transcranial
In the recent months Mark Wheeler has been working on a series of visual sound experiments by creating openFrameworks apps that you can ‘play’ visually, generating animations from MIDI data….
Tags: 2d / ableton / animation / Clay Weishaar / data / featured / generative / graphics / Mark Wheeler / music / openFrameworks / projection / Russ Chimes / Sound
Created by Kyle McDonald, “Sharing Faces” uses a megapixel surveillance camera and custom software to match the face locations of the persons looking at the screen. As the person moves, new images are pulled from the database matching the new location and create a mirror-like image of yourself using the images of others.
Tags: APAP / camera / computer vision / data / debug / debug screen / face tracker / history / Inspiration / Kyle McDonald / location / mirror / network / node / place / process / Reference / ycam
An abstract representation of this landscape is created from a matrix of 529 acrylic pipes piercing the ceiling between the first and the second floor, creating organic rock-like formations on the first floor reflected as an ocean surface on the second.
Tags: Abida / acrylic / architecture / Design Group / featured / installation / Intek & Ctrl+N / kinect / landscape / making of / mechanical / ofxAssimpModelLoader / ofxKinectCommonBridge / ofxMultipleKinects / ofxOpenCvsensors / ofxUI / pc / process / responsive / simulation / visualisation
Generative Scarves for iOS includes a procedural algorithm commonly used to digitally generate patterns of the natural world, sampled into a bespoke application and used to create unique print for an individual scarf.
Tags: Ann-Kristin Abel / AppStore / clothes / Convivial Project / generative / iPad / iPhone / pattern / Paul Ferragut / wearable
Every once in a while a project comes along that will change how we think, discuss and produce digital art. Four+ years in development, FRAMED* will not just be a canvas, but a platform and a community hub for the art of our generation.
Tags: art / community / digital art / featured / ffffound / framed / kickstarter / launch / openframworks / Processing / screen / screen-based art / web / william lai / yugo nakamura
Created by Ed Burton, Icon do better takes on a smart social twist of classic game combined with icon making.
Tags: AppStore / crowd sourcing / design / Ed Burton / falling blocks / icon / ios / iPad / iPhone / openFrameworks / pixel art / pixelart / retro / social / tetris
Play the World invites visitors to perform with a keyboard that finds samples with the same note in near realtime from web radio stations around the world.
Tags: barbican / data / Events / installation / music / note / openFrameworks / radio / Sound / stream / Zach Lieberman
In the former building of the Newspaper BN De Stem, the installation created by Tim Knapen & indianen, allows visitors to collaboratively create mini publications.
Tags: arduino / conditional design / design / device / Events / graphic design / Graphic Design Festival in Breda / Indianen / Interface / open frameworks / opencv / press / printing / process / rule / rule based / Tim Knapen
Created by the panGenerator collective, Macrofilm is a permanent interactive installation for The Museum of The History of Polish Jews that combines traditional, tangible experience of browsing through old archives with subtly augmented digital experience.
Tags: archive / arduino / browsing / data / interaction / Interface / museum / openFrameworks / panGenerator / projection / projection mapping / tangible
Wake Up With the World is a an iOS application that turns your wake up alarm into musical collaborative experience. When you wake your GPS coordinates are translated into musical notes and combined with those of every other person waking up at the same moment as you.
Tags: collaborative / Eric Rieper / generative / gps / ios / location / music / nodejs / openFrameworks / puredata / server / Sound
Fractal Film includes a very precisely choreographed scene, shot in very high definition (5K) at eight different angles, shown always differently using custom based software that chooses rules at random and follows them.
Tags: Antoine Schmitt / Delphine Doukhan / generative / javascript / open frameworks / performance / rule based / theatre
Project explores narratives through colour, line, and form found in geographic satellite imagery. Utilising Google Earth together with custom software, the final install spans over 27 HD screens pointing locations of the films that have been produced by IFP.
Tags: awesomium / bot / google earth / MPC New York / nuke / openFrameworks / process / python / scanning / search / sequence / video
425 hanging pendants located in the new HQ of the Center for Strategic and International Studies visualise global data.
Tags: architecture / commission / data visualisation / display / Environment / installation / light / lighting / pendnants / sculpture / sosolimited
Machine that uses Arduino controlled ball dispensers, motorised rotating steel plates and LED lights to create a nexus between electronic music and a sound responsive mechanical object.
Tags: arduino / Daito Manabe / Motoi Ishibashi / Muryo Homma / music / openFrameworks / process / promo / rhizomatiks / Timo Maas / video / Youichi Sakamoto
Kinematics is a system for 3D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules. The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure using 3D printing.
Tags: 3d printing / fabric / generative / glMatrix / javascript / jewellery / Nervous System / optimisation / poly2tri / process / Processing / retail
The Raspberry Pi is a very exciting low cost computing platform aimed at the educational market. It offers reasonable performance in a small package at a price of $25, making it very attractive for creative computing projects. Here we show you how to run openFrameworks on the Raspberry Pi.
Tags: Andreas Müller / code / download / github / Jason Van Cleave / learning / openFrameworks / raspberrypi / tutorial
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes in an interactive Album App that tells the story of John Lennon’s life changing journey sailing through a mid-Atlantic storm to Bermuda in June 1980, the creative discovery during his time on the island and the artistic collaboration from abroad with wife Yoko Ono at home in New York.
Tags: AppStore / Design I/O / interactive / ios / iPad / John Lennon / openFrameworks / storytelling
inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
Tags: Daniel Leithinger / Hiroshi Ishii / Interface / medialab / projection / projection mapping / research / screen / Sean Follmer / tangible / Tangible Media Group
Developed by the italian interaction designer at Fabrica, Angelo Semeraro, ‘Sadly by your side’ is a music album where each song can be endlessly transformed depending on the images you focus on with your camera.
Tags: Angelo Semeraro / blob detection / computer vision / fabrica / generative / music / opencv / openFrameworks / process
Looking at a Horse is about the context and experience of viewing art, it changes its appearance depending on where it is located and who is viewing it.
Tags: Evan Boehm / facial recognition / installation / narrative / nexus / opencv / openFrameworks / tracking / unity
The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner made entirely of Lego, but if you take a photo of it with a smartphone, and thanks to openFrameworks and openCV all of the events and timings are synchronised to an online, digital calendar.
Tags: calendar / lego / mobile / Objects / office / opencv / openFrameworks / Productivity / tangible / time management / vitamins / vitamins design
The software created was a gesture-based, “keyframeless” animation system, which uses soft-body dynamics to create motion in the same way you would with puppets – by literally grabbing bits of the 3D mesh and pulling it around with the mouse, and recording live.
Tags: keyframe / live / massive attack / openFrameworks / performance / surface / united visual artists / uva
Unsigned Mirror is an application for Mac and Windows that allows you to create a slit-scan image by dragging an image to the mirror object in the window.
Tags: 3d / download / game / glitch / image / Mac / openFrameworks / slit scan / Unsigned Long Long / Windows
Kenichi Yoneda aka Kynd shows latest watercolour experiments at the recent openFrameworks Developer Conference held at YCAM as a part of the Yagamuchi Mini Market Faire.
Tags: drawing / fbo / Kenichi Yoneda / Kynd / layers / openFrameworks / painting / texture / watercolour / ycam
This project, a collaboration between Dentsu, Honda Motor and Rhizomatiks brings back Senna’s engine sound from that lap 24 years ago in the form of an installation set on the original Suzuka circuit that uses light and sound.
Tags: analysis / code / Daito Manabe / data / dentsu / formula 1 / Hidenori Chiba / Hiroyuki Hori / honda / mapping / MaxMSP / Muryo Honma / open frameworks / Qosmo / racing / representation / rhizomatiks / Satoru Higa / Shipoo / Sound / Tomoaki Yanagisawa / visualisation
Students at the RCA show a prototype for digital interface built into a custom dining table that shows players which foods to eat and when. The game detects whether they’ve eaten the correct food by measuring the food’s resistance on the fork.
Tags: arduino / eating / food / Interface / Lana Z Porter / open frameworks / process / ramification / Sures Kumar / table
When Niklas Roy was invited to show My Little Piece of Privacy at Sherbrooke’s Media Art Biennia lÉspace [IM] Média, he decided that he had to modify it slightly. Surrounded by many abandoned shop fronts, his installation was to set up in one of them and as nobody likes to stroll in roads with empty shop windows he wanted help this retail space find a new tenant.
Tags: cubec / installation / Niklas Roy / openFrameworks / retail / shopfront / signage / tracking
Study of real-time 3D Internet is an experiment that explores interaction on the web from the 3rd point perspective. As the user navigates the internet, he/she can project beyond the two dimensional screen into three-dimensional environment recorded by the Kinect.
Tags: 3d / Akihiko Taniguchi / camera / interaction / Interface / kinect / open frameworks / process / recording / screecapture