openframeworks is a C++ toolkit for creative coding which is open source and supported by an avid online community that openly share their code and knowledge. it was time to bring out the OF community in sydney out of the woodwork and chat shop.
rene and i finally got it together after a couple months of inconvenient date swapping. we thought rather then jumping straight into a knitting circle, it would be a good idea to start from the beginning with a introductory workshop into openframeworks.
the turn out was great, a mix between experienced OF’ers and those who were just getting into it. we covered quite a big array of topics starting from the basic OF structure, to creating simple particle systems, to green screening via pixel manipulation, to openCV and blob tracking. we eventually finished with a demo of a interactive table sending TUIO data as input into a particle system we covered in a previous example. all this in a 4 hour session!
all the source to the examples we covered in the workshop can be downloaded here.
we’re planning to make the next one a lot less formal, more of a get together to chat OF.
you can follow the latest developments in the OF sydney community here,
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=147185535296993
http://groups.google.com/group/ofsydney