Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.

The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts, freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing.

The code is written to be both cross platform (PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone) and cross compiler. The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. There are very few classes, and inside of those classes, there are very few functions. The code has been implemented so that within the classes there are minimal cross-referening, making it quite easy to rip out and reuse and/or extend.

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Users will appreciate the iPhone 4’s gyroscopes new sense of control because it’s the closest thing you get to augmented reality without the extra hardware involved. What makes this so special is the nearly 1:1 motion control displayed by the software.

The game demonstrated here in itself isn’t all that complicated –aim and shoot targets accurately – but the limitless possibilities this gyroscope-developer symbiosis presents are mind boggling. Soon we could see apps like Layar, GPS aided information or car and flight simulators in a whole new way, literally.

I started this project exactly 1 year ago, almost to the hour. The final version is a lot different than I thought it would be, I was expecting a lot more digital video noise, and a lot less digital audio noise. Let this be a lesson, though, always be careful how you convert your digital media!

An homage to the great Alvin Lucier, this piece explores the ‘photocopy effect’, where upon repeated copies the object begin to accumulate the idiosyncrasies of the medium doing the copying. Full words: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice as well as the image of myself, and I am going to upload it to YouTube, rip it from YouTube, and upload it again and again, until the original characteristics of both my voice and my image are destroyed. What you will see and hear, then, are the artifacts inherent in the video codec of both YouTube and the mp4 format I convert it to on my computer. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a digital fact, but more as a way to eliminate all human qualities my speech and image might have.

Nokia Ovi Maps have created an impressive interactive installation. Nokia & Seeper combined a high powered projection installation with dynamic face tracking, custom optical flow and a bespoke motion application called Chess.

Wired magazine have fascinating video clips from the 2010 CES [consumer electronics show]  of a superb working example of the evolving 3D printing technology. The basic 3D-printer shown – MakerBot’s Cupcake CNC – is priced at the low $750.00.