This is a project I recently created for an installation. It uses the kinect to place the user into a world that has many particles in it – and they basically interact with the particles which are also being influenced by some perlin noise. It was a spin off of my previous project, CinderRibbons which [...]
Tags: c++, cinder, NativeApplication, preview, Uncategorized
Working on a project at work, and at at home is a good way to re-enforce processes needed to get up and running as well as exposing cracks in your setup. In this case it was my Eclipse Loves Cinder template I followed my own instructions to get Eclipse up and running with Cinder C++ [...]
Tags: c++, cinder, eclipse, eclipselovescinder
I was really having a hard time with Xcode lately, specifically how its C++ code-completion leaves much to be desired especially if you have a very bad memory. I find myself constantly painfully looking through the header files to find the exact name/case of a function or property. So I decided to try and see [...]
Tags: c++, cinder, eclipse, kinect, NativeApplication, openni, sample-code
Here is some stuff I’ve put together that does Skeletontracking via OpenNI on a separate thread in cinder. This is based on some code that was posted by Sector9 on the cinder forums, and which is based on the example code that comes with the Nite module. For some reason my skeleton is offset by [...]
Tags: cinder, kinect, NativeApplication, sample-code
I’ve been using the Kinect for the past two weeks. It’s an amazing device, very fun to code for. To be honest, the Kinect really provides a webcam image, and a depth map… That’s really all it adds to the mix. While that’s a lot – people (by that i mean gadget blogs, non-coder blogs) [...]
It’s weird porting something that was written into, c++ ported to AS3, back to C++. However If you’ve ever tried to find the C++ version of a boids class. They’re all too complicated for my needs, and i really like the way @soulwire ‘s version works so I started porting it into C++. Based largely [...]
Tags: cinder, gravityswarm, NativeApplication, post-a-day, sample-code
Given a quad, this is how you can calculate the normals for each face. This works for triangles, as well as quad. Loop through each face, and pass in 3 verticies. If you have a quad ABCD pass in ABD. For example for the front facing face on this cube, I would pass in, v2, [...]
Tags: cinder, math, post-a-day, sample-code
This is a pretty cool still frame – of an application I’m working on at the moment. Changing this single parameter ( which controls acceleration ) – to a number i only accidentally set it to gave me this: ( You have to click on these to actually see what it looks like, the thumbnail [...]
Tags: Accidental, cinder, preview
I’m very happy to share a new painting application I have created for OSX called RibbonPaint
Tags: App, cinder, NativeApplication, preview, RibbonPaint
GravitySwarm is an application I’m creating for the ipad. It’s a gravity swarm simulation, you create gravitational forces with your fingers and watch how the swarm interacts. The swarm moves via low-octave perlin noise combined with proximity attraction. I created it using Cinder which I’ve been using a lot lately and its really tons of [...]
Tags: App, cinder, gravityswarm, info, ipad, iphone, preview