Openframworks

Openframeworks is an creative coding framework written in C++. This means it is not very beginner friendly but can be a lot more stable and fast for your installations then other creative coding tools.

The framework is free and open source and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux

OpenFrameworks: Getting Started

Getting started:

  1. Go to this page: https://openframeworks.cc/download/
  2. Choose the instruction page that matches your operating system.
  3. Try to compile an OF example to get a feel for the workflow and the code.

If you are looking for help and support go here: https://forum.openframeworks.cc/

OF examples

Openframeworks has a lot of built-in examples that you can use to get an idea of what can look here: https://openframeworks.cc/examples/ for online version of the examples.

OF Tutorial

Take a look at this youtube tutorials playlist

His youtube channel has many OF tutorials.

Artists using OpenFameworks

Zach Liebermann

Kyle McDonald

Artist website can be found here

Theo Watson

This article on medium showcases a number of artists using creative coidng for their work including OpenFrameworks