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OpenFrameworks Essentials

You're reading from   OpenFrameworks Essentials Create stunning, interactive openFrameworks-based applications with this fast-paced guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396145
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with openFrameworks FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First openFrameworks Project 3. Adding a GUI and Handling Keyboard Events 4. Working with Raster Graphics – Images, Videos, and Shaders 5. Creating 3D Graphics 6. Animating Parameters 7. Distributed and Physical Computing with Networking and Arduino 8. Deploying the Project on iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi 9. Further Resources A. Video Synthesizer Reference B. openFrameworks Quick Reference Index

Distributed computing with networking


Networking is a way of sending and receiving data between programs, which work on a single or different computers and mobile devices. Using networking, it is possible to split a complex project into several programs working together.

There are at least three reasons to create distributed projects:

  • The first reason is splitting to obtain better performance. For example, when creating a big interactive wall with cameras and projectors, it is possible to use two computers. The first computer (tracker) will process data from cameras and send the result to the second computer (render), which will render the picture and output it to projectors.

  • The second reason is creating a heterogeneous project using different development languages. For example, consider a project that generates a real-time visualization of data captured from the Web. It is easy to capture and analyze the data from the Web using a programming language like Python, but it is hard to create...

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