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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

Integrating with OpenCV


OpenCV is a very powerful open-source library for computer vision. The library is written in C++ so it can be easily integrated in your Cinder application. There is a very useful OpenCV Cinder block provided within Cinder package available at the GitHub repository (https://github.com/cinder/Cinder-OpenCV).

Getting ready

Make sure you have Xcode up and running with a Cinder project opened.

How to do it…

We will add OpenCV Cinder block to your project, which also illustrates the usual way of adding any other Cinder block to your project. Perform the following steps to do so:

  1. Add a new group to our Xcode project root and name it Blocks. Next, drag the opencv folder inside the Blocks group. Be sure to select the Create groups for any added folders radio button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. You will need only the include folder inside the opencv folder in your project structure, so delete any reference to others. The final project structure should look like the following...