Twitter.. the final frontier

Wow, it's been a couple of weeks since I did my last post. I've been busy working on lots of websites for clients. Though this weekend I dove into text rendering with openFrameworks. I'd never expected that rendering text is such an advanced topic. After searching for a good text rendering engine I found actually just two good open source rendering libraries which have features for laying out (unicode) text. There is a library called FTGL which I tested first, though it seemed outdated. Therefore I searched for another text rendering library and found a library called Pango which is extremely nice! It's much more active developed than FTGL and used by a couple of big open source projects (such as Firefox on Linux). Currently I'm working on an addon for openFrameworks which working nicely atm.

Besides a text-rendering addon I created addon for the streaming twitter server... I'm still working on this and need to fine tune some things before I can make it publicly avaible in such a way it can be used by others.

Below are some images of little projects I'm working on.

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