OF lab construction - day 2 from openFrameworks Lab on Vimeo.

I’ll be at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria September 4 - 8. In between the tremendous amount of art and technology sightseeing I plan to do with the Interactive Institute, I’ll be dropping by the OF Lab to finalize the Arduino class in cppGlue.

“The OF lab will focus on creating new works that come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members, and over the course of the event, create a feedback loop between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and most importantly, exposing the process”.

openFramworks is like a stronger and wilder Processings. This video pretty much sums it up.

I’ve recently used OF for The Dream World and Metabolism of the Organism, Automatic and a yet to be exhibited installation for the Swedish Institute.

One of the beauties of OF are the addons that simplify installation and use of libraries such as openCV. I’m currently in the process of reworking cppGlue, a collection of classes that I’ve developed for my own OF projects, into a proper OF addon. cppGlue is built on top of POCO C++, a very capable general purpose library which I hope will be part of the OF core in the future. I’ve been experimenting with openFrameworks since v0.01. Already in the first pre-releases it was stable and structured enough to be used in “real” projects. It’s improving drastically with every release and with POCO C++ at it’s core it would take another giant step forward.

openFrameworks, a C++ framework for writing creative code, is about to be launched at http://www.openframeworks.cc.