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OpenFrameworks Essentials

By : Denis Perevalov

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OpenFrameworks Essentials

5 (7)

By: Denis Perevalov

Overview of this book

If you are a programmer, visual artist, or designer with experience in creative coding, and want to use openFrameworks to create fun, stunning, and interactive applications, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of programming languages, such as C++, Java, Python, or JavaScript, will be enough to proceed with the book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Getting Started with openFrameworks

1. Getting Started with openFrameworks

What is openFrameworks?

Installing openFrameworks

Running your first example

The video synthesizer application

Summary

2. Creating Your First openFrameworks Project

2. Creating Your First openFrameworks Project

Creating and running a new project

Discovering the project's code structure

Setting up the screen

Centering the coordinate system

A simple drawing

Geometric patterns

Summary

3. Adding a GUI and Handling Keyboard Events

3. Adding a GUI and Handling Keyboard Events

Creating a GUI using the ofxGui addon

Implementing a simple GUI panel with sliders

Implementing the autosave feature

Creating groups of controls

Implementing a checkbox, a color selector, and a 2D slider

Handling keyboard events

Implementing the matrix pattern generator

Summary

4. Working with Raster Graphics – Images, Videos, and Shaders

4. Working with Raster Graphics – Images, Videos, and Shaders

Raster images in openFrameworks

Drawing an image file

Playing a video file

Grabbing a live video from a camera

Mixing layers using additive blending

Creating the video effect with a shader

Summary

5. Creating 3D Graphics

5. Creating 3D Graphics

Introduction to 3D graphics with openFrameworks

Drawing a wireframe sphere

Creating a camera

Drawing a solid sphere

Texturing the sphere

Mixing 2D and 3D with the GUI

Deforming a sphere

Summary

6. Animating Parameters

6. Animating Parameters

Using time values for a parameter's automation

Using the level of sound for a parameter's automation

Capturing sound from a sound card's input and measuring its level

Reading data from a text file

Controlling automation

Summary

7. Distributed and Physical Computing with Networking and Arduino

7. Distributed and Physical Computing with Networking and Arduino

Distributed computing with networking

Networking in openFrameworks

Implementing the OSC messages receiver

Creating an OSC sender with openFrameworks

Creating OSC senders with TouchOSC, Python, and Max/MSP

Physical computing with Arduino

Programming an Arduino board

Summary

8. Deploying the Project on iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi

8. Deploying the Project on iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi

Running the project on an iOS device

Deploying the project on an iOS device

Running the project on an Android device

Running the project on Raspberry Pi

Summary

9. Further Resources

9. Further Resources

Enhancing the video synthesizer project

Getting more information on openFrameworks

Debugging and speeding up your code

Summary

A. Video Synthesizer Reference

A. Video Synthesizer Reference

The desktop version

iOS and Android versions

Raspberry Pi version

Summary

B. openFrameworks Quick Reference

B. openFrameworks Quick Reference

Application

2D drawing

The GUI

Multimedia and other classes

Mathematical, timer, and conversion functions

Summary

Index

Index

Application

The ofApp class is the main class for the openFrameworks project. It is declared in the ofApp.h file, and its functions are defined in the ofApp.cpp file. It contains functions that are called by the openFrameworks engine on starting up, rendering, and various events from the user, such as mouse events and keyboard events. (See Chapter 2, Creating Your First openFrameworks Project, for details).

The most important functions that should be filled to have a working project are the following:

setup(): This is called by openFrameworks once on starting the application. For example, it can include the following commands:
```
ofSetWindowTitle( "My project" );
ofSetWindowShape( 1280, 720 );
ofSetFrameRate( 60 );
ofSetFullScreen( true );
```
The first line sets the application's window title to My project. The second line sets the window size to a width of 1280 pixels and a height of 720 pixels. The third line sets the rendering frame rate to 60 frames per second. The last line...

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