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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







Blinkdrink is a simple provocation to imagine new modes of interacting with screen-based technologies, taking the experience of the 2-d screen and extending it into 3-d space, and having fun with it.
04/08/2013Once we take a step back from our screens and look at exciting new opportunities Leap Motion provides, we may discover and begin to describe new ways of computer-human interaction. Here are our top 10 up-to-date.
02/08/2013Studio Hands use Processing and openFrameworks to send send designs of T-shirts and the bag via sound to be screen-printed.
01/08/2013Glassified is a modified ruler with a transparent display to supplement physical strokes made on paper with virtual graphics. The goal of the device is to complement rather than replace a typical ruler and since the display is transparent, both the physical strokes and the virtual graphics are visible in the same plane.
26/07/2013After thousands of developers entered the Intel Perceptual Challenge contest by submitting their ideas, 750 have now been selected to receive a camera to continue to the next stage of the competition.
16/07/2013Ghost is an interactive installation of a snow storm, raging within an abandoned, barren landscape. Within this storm the visitor can make out a procession of human forms which seemingly try to find a way out. The bodies are remnants of the previous visitors, their ghosts, trapped in the hostile environment.
27/06/2013Weather Worlds is an interactive installation that grants children weather controlling superpowers. Utilising kinect cameras and real-time greenscreening via openFrameworks, the installation allows children to see themselves immersed in an interactive and dynamic environment.
26/06/2013Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitisation affordable and scaleable. It uses components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera and it produces high quality video with sound.
24/06/2013*is this good?* and LFA architects create a light responsive installation for the French music festival Nuits Sonores.
17/06/2013User 632 is an installation that stores the behaviour of the people who look at it by monitoring them in return. It is designed to know when and how a person passes and stores information as data or ID dependant on proximity.
14/06/2013What are you waiting for? Intel is looking for the most innovative and unique uses of Perceptual Computing. A grand-prize of $100,000 and thousand of dollars more in prizing are available but you must act soon!
12/06/2013The team behind ‘Clouds’ continue to explore the medium in the latest short film “Drowning of Echo”, an interpretation of the Transformation of Echo & the story of Narcissus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
05/06/2013Murmur enables communication between public and the projection by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual.
04/06/2013Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
24/05/2013In collaboration with Intel, CAN is pleased to announce the launch of Intel Perceptual Computing challenge. This is your opportunity to change the way people interface with computers and win a chance at $100,000 and get your app on new Perceptual Computing devices.
23/05/2013Jeremy Rotsztain takes you on a virtual safari across an infinite painting where with each gesture you encounter new species of brush strokes and colorful patterns which endlessly redraw, connect and change colour.
22/05/2013Created by Onformative, Google Faces is a an independent searching agent created in openFrameworks that hovers the world to spot all the faces that are hidden on earth.
21/05/2013What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been “messing” with it using openFrameworks.
17/05/2013C++ creative coding toolkit to create realtime feedback environments for dancers is now available for download. Available both as open source download and applications for Mac and Windows to choreograph or rehearse previously programmed scenes.
14/05/2013Created by Ed Burton, formerly of SodaPlay, and now at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace transforms photographs of drawings into music.
13/05/2013Fracture.io allowed visitors to “enter the digital space”, taking 3D scans of pose-striking partygoers to generate beautifully abstracted, full body 3D renderings.
10/05/2013Universal Everything create a 4 sided video cube for Nike at Milan Design Week, capturing the hive of activity where living threads swarm across the screens responding to human presence.
08/05/2013450 square meters of musical forest comprised of 150 ‘trees’ for audience to explore spatially and physically by tapping, shaking, plucking, and vibrating them to trigger sounds and lasers.
25/04/2013ExR3 is an a anamorphic analogue interactive installation that exists coherently in a fractured, mirrored version of a reflected room visible from four points within the real space.
22/04/2013Created by Dhairya Dand and Robert Hemsley, the project seeks to develop gestures to evolve three-dimensional surfaces using 2.5D interaction.
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08/03/2013Created by James George and co-developed by YCAMInterLab during the Guest Research Project v.2, Duration is an open source and completely free timeline application built using openFrameworks which integrates with Processing, Cinder, vvvv, Unity3d, Quartz, and any other OSC enabled environment.
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08/02/2013Blinkdrink is a simple provocation to imagine new modes of interacting with screen-based technologies, taking the experience of the 2-d screen and extending it into 3-d space, and having fun with it.
Tags: AppStore / Bradley Simpson / ios / iPhone / light / minimal / openFrameworks / Sound / sound responsive
Once we take a step back from our screens and look at exciting new opportunities Leap Motion provides, we may discover and begin to describe new ways of computer-human interaction. Here are our top 10 up-to-date.
Tags: Cinder / desktop / gesture / interaction / Interface / leap motion / openFrameworks / particles / Processing
Studio Hands use Processing and openFrameworks to send send designs of T-shirts and the bag via sound to be screen-printed.
Tags: analogue / Electric Deluxe / label / merchandise / music / Objects / openFrameworks / printing / Processing / screen printing / Sound
Glassified is a modified ruler with a transparent display to supplement physical strokes made on paper with virtual graphics. The goal of the device is to complement rather than replace a typical ruler and since the display is transparent, both the physical strokes and the virtual graphics are visible in the same plane.
Tags: Anirudh Sharma / device / drawing / geometry / Lirong Liu / mathematics / mit media lab / openFrameworks / Pattie Maes / RS232 / Wacom
After thousands of developers entered the Intel Perceptual Challenge contest by submitting their ideas, 750 have now been selected to receive a camera to continue to the next stage of the competition.
Tags: code / competition / contest / Events / ideas / intel / Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge / Interface / openFrameworks / perceptual computing / Processing / submit
Ghost is an interactive installation of a snow storm, raging within an abandoned, barren landscape. Within this storm the visitor can make out a procession of human forms which seemingly try to find a way out. The bodies are remnants of the previous visitors, their ghosts, trapped in the hostile environment.
Tags: ecal / glsl / installation / kinect / openFrameworks / openni / osc / Thomas Eberwein / Thomas Traum / Tim Gfrerer
Weather Worlds is an interactive installation that grants children weather controlling superpowers. Utilising kinect cameras and real-time greenscreening via openFrameworks, the installation allows children to see themselves immersed in an interactive and dynamic environment.
Tags: camera / designio / Emily Gobeille / gesture / installation / kids / kinect / Nick Hardeman / opencv / openFrameworks / Theo Watson
Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitisation affordable and scaleable. It uses components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera and it produces high quality video with sound.
Tags: 3d printing / archive / capture / dslr / film / itp / Matthew Epler / media history / opencv / openFrameworks / Processing / raspberrypi
*is this good?* and LFA architects create a light responsive installation for the French music festival Nuits Sonores.
Tags: Events / france / installation / is this good? / music festival / Nuits Sonores / ofxPostProcessing / ofxXmlGui / openFrameworks
User 632 is an installation that stores the behaviour of the people who look at it by monitoring them in return. It is designed to know when and how a person passes and stores information as data or ID dependant on proximity.
Tags: camera / data / installation / kinect / Martin Fuchs / openFrameworks / personality / Philip Whitfield / privacy / public / recording
What are you waiting for? Intel is looking for the most innovative and unique uses of Perceptual Computing. A grand-prize of $100,000 and thousand of dollars more in prizing are available but you must act soon!
Tags: code / competition / contest / Events / ideas / intel / Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge / Interface / openFrameworks / perceptual computing / Processing / submit
The team behind ‘Clouds’ continue to explore the medium in the latest short film “Drowning of Echo”, an interpretation of the Transformation of Echo & the story of Narcissus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Tags: Alexander Porter / film / james george / kinect / narrative / open frameworks / RGBD / story telling
Murmur enables communication between public and the projection by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual.
Tags: 2Roqs / Chevalvert / input / installation / Interface / open frameworks / Polygraphik / raspberrypi / Sound / Splank
Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
Tags: CLICK Festival 2013 / Environment / Jonas Jongejan / Kyle McDonald / mapping / openFrameworks / projection / reflection / structured light
In collaboration with Intel, CAN is pleased to announce the launch of Intel Perceptual Computing challenge. This is your opportunity to change the way people interface with computers and win a chance at $100,000 and get your app on new Perceptual Computing devices.
Tags: code / competition / contest / Events / ideas / intel / Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge / Interface / openFrameworks / perceptual computing / Processing / submit
Jeremy Rotsztain takes you on a virtual safari across an infinite painting where with each gesture you encounter new species of brush strokes and colorful patterns which endlessly redraw, connect and change colour.
Created by Onformative, Google Faces is a an independent searching agent created in openFrameworks that hovers the world to spot all the faces that are hidden on earth.
Tags: algorithm / autonomous agent / facial detection / facial recognition / google earth / maps / moon / onformative / openFrameworks
What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been “messing” with it using openFrameworks.
Tags: experiment / fbo / laser / mapping / Marshmallow Laser Feast / memo akten / openFrameworks / projection / projection mapping / realtime
C++ creative coding toolkit to create realtime feedback environments for dancers is now available for download. Available both as open source download and applications for Mac and Windows to choreograph or rehearse previously programmed scenes.
Tags: dance / film / kinect / Kyle McDonald / motion / Motoi Shimizu / openFrameworks / performance / Satoru Higa / tracking / ycam / Yoko Ando / Yoshito Onishi
Created by Ed Burton, formerly of SodaPlay, and now at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace transforms photographs of drawings into music.
Tags: App Store / download / drawing / Ed Burton / free / generative / iPad / iPhone / music / opencv / openFrameworks / Queen Mary / Sound / tracing / University of London
Fracture.io allowed visitors to “enter the digital space”, taking 3D scans of pose-striking partygoers to generate beautifully abstracted, full body 3D renderings.
Tags: booth / installation / javascript / network / openFrameworks / python / unity / Web Server
Universal Everything create a 4 sided video cube for Nike at Milan Design Week, capturing the hive of activity where living threads swarm across the screens responding to human presence.
Tags: Andreas Müller / Chris Perry / Dylan Griffith / houdini / kinect / Matt Pyke / Mike Tucker / milan design week 2013 / nike / ofxCv / ofxOpenNI / ofxTimeline / openFrameworks / osc / Simon Pyke / Universal Everything
450 square meters of musical forest comprised of 150 ‘trees’ for audience to explore spatially and physically by tapping, shaking, plucking, and vibrating them to trigger sounds and lasers.
Tags: Barney Steel / generative / installation / lasers / light / Marshmallow Laser Feast / memo akten / music / openFrameworks / Robin McNicholas / Sound / supercollider
ExR3 is an a anamorphic analogue interactive installation that exists coherently in a fractured, mirrored version of a reflected room visible from four points within the real space.
Tags: design / Elliot Woods / Environment / generative / installation / Kyle McDonald / mirror / nodeforum / openFrameworks / projection / reflection / spatial
Created by Dhairya Dand and Robert Hemsley, the project seeks to develop gestures to evolve three-dimensional surfaces using 2.5D interaction.
Tags: 2d / 3d / device / Interface / mit / openFrameworks / projection / projection mapping / surface
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Tags: artist in residence / code / Elliot Woods / Events / Joanie Lemercier / Joel Gethin Lewis / Kyle McDonald / manchester / openFrameworks / projection / screenlab / vr / vvvv
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Tags: arduino / augmented reality / drones / interaction / Interface / medialab / Objects / openFrameworks / Remote
Created by James George and co-developed by YCAMInterLab during the Guest Research Project v.2, Duration is an open source and completely free timeline application built using openFrameworks which integrates with Processing, Cinder, vvvv, Unity3d, Quartz, and any other OSC enabled environment.
Tags: code / james george / openFrameworks / opensource / osc / Processing / timeline / tools / ycam
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Tags: dance / film / kinect / motion / openFrameworks / performance / tracking / ycam / Yoko Ando
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Tags: code / Gray Area / josh nimoy / learning / openFrameworks / Processing / techniques