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Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook

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Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook

Overview of this book

Cinder is one of the most exciting frameworks available for creative coding. It is developed in C++ for increased performance and allows for the fast creation of visually complex, interactive applications."Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will show you how to develop interactive and visually dynamic applications using simple-to-follow recipes.You will learn how to use multimedia content, draw generative graphics in 2D and 3D, and animate them in compelling ways. Beginning with creating simple projects with Cinder, you will use multimedia, create animations, and interact with the user.From animation with particles to using video, audio, and images, the reader will gain a broad knowledge of creating applications using Cinder.With recipes that include drawing in 3D, image processing, and sensing and tracking in real-time from camera input, the book will teach you how to develop interesting applications."Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook" will give you the necessary knowledge to start creating projects with Cinder that use animations and advanced visuals.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Communicating with other software


We will implement an example communication between two Cinder applications written in Cinder to illustrate how we can send and receive signals. Each of these two applications can be replaced by a non-Cinder application very easily.

We are going to use the Open Sound Control (OSC) messaging format, which is dedicated for communication between wide ranges of multimedia devices over the network. OSC uses UDP protocol, providing flexibility and performance. Each message consists of URL-like addresses and arguments of integer, float, or string type. The popularity of OSC makes it a great tool for connecting different environments or applications developed with different technologies over the network or even on the local machine.

Getting ready

While downloading the Cinder package we are also downloading four primary blocks. One of them is the osc block located in the blocks directory. First, we will add a new group to our XCode project root and name it Blocks,...