Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified

Key Features

• Create cutting edge audio-visual interactive projects, interactive installations, and sound art projects with ease
• Unleash the power of low-level data processing methods using C++ and shaders
• Make use of the next generation technologies and techniques in your projects involving OpenCV, Microsoft Kinect, and so on

Book Description

What you will learn

• Install openFrameworks in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Load images and videos from files, and learn rendering and low-level processing
• Learn to use sound samples, sound synthesizing, and how to record sounds from a microphone
• Work with 3D graphics, including shaders
• Extend your project with additional graphics, sound, networking, and computer vision functionality with the help of numerous openFrameworks addons
• Create distributed projects, which work on a several computers by synchronizing via OSC protocol
• Leverage computer vision basics, including optical flow, and perspective transformations
• Use depth cameras, like Microsoft Kinect, for creating interactive walls.

Who this book is for

If you are a visual artist, designer, or programmer interested in creative coding with openFrameworks then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of object-oriented programming, such as C++, Java, Python, and ActionScript 3, would be helpful.