openFrameworks freakDay workshop

Today we had our second openFrameworks freakDay meeting of 2011. Different from last year, we're a bit more "organized". The workshop of today was the actual first meeting where a couple of participants created some amazing presentations on topics related to the field of creative coding.  Martin Bartels gave a talk about a bunch of fantastic practical addons he created for a couple of projects he did including fast communication between openFrameworks and AIR (Flash), a state manager, and natural language processing.  Tim Olden from blendid gave us some insights on a great project called "Computational Candles" where he uses a kinect to detect motion and uses this information to toggle the color/brightness of 75 lights! Rick Companje, lecturer at the university of Leiden talked about bump-mapping/displacement shaders which are a ways to add depth effects on 3D surfaces. He also showed us a bit of the insights of his project called Globe4D especially how he uses multiple trackball mouse to calculate a precise position of the "ball" (see link). I gave some information on C++ and how to use it in a generic way.  I also explained the basic physics laws of Newton and how to simulate clothes on a computer. Rick removed the C++ template code and put it online for download here

 

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