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OpenFrameworks Essentials

By : Denis Perevalov

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OpenFrameworks Essentials

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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

Getting more information on openFrameworks

Our book was dedicated to the basics of openFrameworks with the main effort to create 2D and 3D generative graphics. So, we did not consider several topics such as computer vision and low-level sound synthesis. To get acquainted with the whole range of openFrameworks capabilities, check out the examples in the examples folder and explore the online documentation and forum at openframeworks.cc.

For a deeper understanding of openFrameworks, we recommend that you read other books on this subject.

openFrameworks books

Currently there are three books that cover openFrameworks:

ofBook: This is a free online book on openFrameworks written collaboratively. It contains detailed information on many topics related to openFrameworks, C++ programming, and creative coding. To read it, go to the book's page at github.com/openframeworks/ofBook, click on the chapters folder, and you will see the list of chapters. Now click on the folder of the desired chapter, and...

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