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Open Source Libraries For Creative Coding

A collection of open source libraries I use regurlarly use for my interactive simulations and installations.

Audio

Video

  • x264, best video encoding library around
  • libvpx, video encoding/decoding

I/O

  • libuv, threading, networking, file io, events
  • nanomsg, amazing networking, threading library
  • libjansson, json reading/writing
  • rapidxml, xml reading/writing
  • libcurl, client-side url transfer library (ftp,http,etc..)

Graphics

Geometry

  • psimpl, generic n-dimensional polyline simplification