Arduino + Servo + openCV Tutorial [openFrameworks]
One of the my favorite things about creativeapplications.net has always been the small tags one can find beneath the name of an application indicating among other things, the technology used to create...
View ArticleWireless + Arduino + oF [Tutorial]
In the last tutorial we used an openFrameworks application to control a process running on an Arduino board. In this tutorial we’re going to reverse that and use an Arduino board to control an...
View ArticleImages in Cinder [Tutorials, Cinder]
Written by Joshua Noble, with images by Robert Hodgin In this little tutorial we’re going to follow a path that starts with a file on the filesystem, say a PNG file, and ends with the image being drawn...
View Article“A Philosophy of Computer Art” by Dominic Lopes [Books, Review]
A Philosophy of Computer Art is a text that may interest some readers of creativeapplications.net as it covers the intersection of computing and art, discussing some of the classics of interactive art,...
View ArticleGuide to Meshes In Cinder [Cinder, Tutorials]
Introduction Written by Joshua Noble, with images by Robert Hodgin This article is going to cover two things in great detail: vertices and meshes and how they are handled in Cinder. There are a few...
View ArticleDaito Manabe: being real about being material [Theory]
An artist with a background in DJ-ing, electronic music, and visuals for clubs in Japan and now all over the world, Daito Manabe tends to make virtual things real, rather than vice versa. One of the...
View ArticleShaders, Geometry, and the Kinect – Part 1 [Cinder, Tutorials]
By Stephen Schieberl and Joshua Noble We’ve heard it plenty of times when people are talking about working with the Kinect: “we’ll just get the point cloud and turn it a mesh”. You may have even...
View ArticleVan Gogh’s Starry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis [openFrameworks, iPad]
Petros Vrellis has created an interactive visualisation and synthesizer that animates Vincent Van Goghs “Starry Night”, using openframeworks to create a simple and elegant interaction. A fluid...
View ArticleSmall, Programmable, Wearable and Cheap – Enjoying the ATTiny85 Tutorial
Wouldn't it would be nice to have something small, programmable, cheap, and power efficient that could do *some* of what an Arduino can do and had the same easy tools to use with it? Well there is: the...
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