setPixel

I have been using my own file templates for openFrameworks for a while now, but since I found out about this in China and was messing around with it on a train between Shanghai and Hangzhou I totally forgot about it. Recently people in class have been asking about creating classes in OF, so I’m taking this as an opportunity to fix some things I have been meaning to correct in my file templates and put them up for people to share/use.

These templates are file templates, if you’re looking for Project Templates Memo Akten has a great post on how to install his XCode project templates for both desktop and iphone. You can check that out here:

Memo’s iPhone Templates

To install these templates, you first need to create the following folder:
(Your Hard Disk)>>Library>>Application Support>>Developer>>Shared>>XCode>>File Templates

The next step is to download the zip I’m including below and copy the files into your File templates folder (specified above).

Now if you go into XCode, open a project, right click on the SRC folder and select “Add>New File…” you’ll be presented with a dialog. You should see the category “User Templates” on the left, and under that “openFrameworks”. Click on “openFrameworks” and select “basicClass”. Hit “next”, name your class, and click “finish”.

You now should have a new OF/C++ class ready to go with the basic setup(), update() and draw() functions, header includes, definitions, etc.

Enjoy!

Files for Download:
openFrameworks File Templates

Here are a few things I have done recently, I think all for my setPixel class. My thesis work is in other posts and my data vis class is still getting rolling work-wise (expect a first project from there by next week), so most of the work I have done this semester is from this class.

I won’t go crazy into descriptions, but basically the images here use algorithms I wrote to accomplish “square-packing” and “circle-packing” by finding the largest square or circle that would fit in each image, drawing it, then finding the next largest, so on and so forth till the image is recreated using squares or circles. Really hard for me to figure out but the effect is awesome and was well worth the effort I think!

These videos are made by averaging the pixels of two movies (The Darjeeling Limited) and reproducing the colors of the frames from every second of the movie. Really interesting how a movie as colorful as the Darjeeling Limited reduces to a lot of browns (most likely due to complimentary colors)

Here is a quick edit I made of 5 pixel-based simple animations I made as an intro assignment for the class setPixel() at Parsons.

Each number is executed in a different language and animated in some way. Some came out more successful than others, not super happy with the processing one but there wasn’t a lot of time to work on them.

Languages used (in order): PHP, openFrameworks, Processing, AS3, Javascript