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OpenFrameworks is great for developing applications quickly and the data folder is easy and convenient when you are developing. But after the application is complete and you are ready to distribute/move it around, it can become problematic. For example, if you have more than one OF application in the same folder and they both need a data folder, you have a problem. The best solution I have found is by mazbox in his of64 screensaver example. He used a command that will copy your entire data folder into your resources folder relative to your application:

cp -r bin/data "$TARGET_BUILD_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.saver/Contents/Resources";


This needs to be added to the Run Script command found in the application target. See image below.

You can check that it have been moved successfully by right clicking on the application and choosing “Show Package Contents” and it will be in Contents / Resources / data. Now that your data folder is being copied over, we need to tell OF where to look. So we need to set the path root by calling ofSetDataPathRoot("../Resources/"); in the setup function. Now you can move the application around and not worry about its relation to the data folder.

Rename your Application

This may be pretty straight-forward, but in Xcode 4 things changed. It is fairly easy to do so, just click once on the application, pause a second and then click again to bring up the text input. In the image below, the project is named “emptyExample”, which can be changed to anything you desire. Click on rename and create a snapshot.

While you are building the application in Debug mode, it will say {MyApplication}Debug. To get rid of this you need to switch it to Release mode. To do this, click on the current scheme > Edit Scheme and set Build Configuration to Release. See images below.

Setting an Icon for the Application

I created an empty xcode project that switches icons dynamically based on the build configuration. Download the xcode 4 project. You can use Icon Composer on OSX to create icons, the largest being 512×512 and the smallest being 16×16. I created some icon files using the OF logo. Download the icons here: of-icons (~3MB). Put the icon.icns and icon-debug.icns files into your data folder and do a Product > Clean to let xcode know that you have new assets. Build the project and Bam; new icons.

The screen saver displays random employee’s information and photograph, passively helping people learn others names or roles in the agency. The screen saver functions like employee flash cards and is powered by a database on the local office network. If the network is not detected, either the Arnold logo or Arnold R&D logo will appear, drop and break into circles.
Music by Magnetic Man “Flying into Tokyo”

You may download the Arnold screen saver for mac osx 10.6 or greater. Just unzip and double click the .saver file.

However, we wanted to pick our favorite, not guess which brand was which. We chose six vodkas based on what we normally drink or thought was good quality. We normally buy Svedka because it is cheap and we think it is a good bang for your buck. We had to include Ciroc because of P Diddy.

The results based on 13 participants:

1. Grey Goose $30
2. Kettle One $32
3. Stoli $23
4. Tito’s $26
5. Ciroc $34
6. Svedka $16

Prices are for 750ml bottles

There was a clear winner and loser. Everyone had their own scorecard and rated the vodkas most favorite to least favorite. Or if they hated vodka, whichever tasted least like rubbing alcohol to most repulsive. Grey Goose won by a landslide and Svedka placed far behind in dead last. I was really hoping that Svedka would place higher, since it was the cheapest. Ciroc placed second to last and was the most expensive. Not a good deal. Stoli seems to be the best value at $23 and coming in third place overall and in the top two in my ratings.

People’s Choice

Personal Favorites

Everyone’s taste is different, and I don’t really care if other people like what I drink. So my top choices were Stoli and Tito’s which are in the mid price range. Svedka again, dead last in my rankings, both rounds getting a “horrible” note to myself.

We served the vodkas in non-descript bottles so that people would not be influenced by the label or bottle shape.

Each person got their own shot glass and poured the non-labeled vodka into it. Everyone had a score card and needed to rank the vodkas based on the bottle number from their favorite to least favorite .

Tasting vodka straight up while stone cold sober is not appealing. So Gabe made a “palate loosener” with the goal of reducing the shock for the first shot.

The score card and a pile of people’s notes and ratings.

Playing around with ofxMPMFluid to create a displacement map for a sphere.

Download the gif_recorder_source.zip for processing 2.0a4.

Download the application ~(35MB). Pretty big file size for such a simple app.

• gifRecorder_app.macosx32
• gifRecorder_app.linux
• gifRecorder_app.windows32
• gifRecorder_app.windows64

We displayed Twelement and many clever tweets that showed up in real time on the large projection.

We also did a processing workshop.

A quick app just in time for the holidays. Blinking your eyes creates berry branches and moving your eyebrows up and down makes thin branches. The colors of the branches are based on the camera feed. Moving your head influences the direction of the branches. A slight clockwise or counter-clockwise force is applied to help obtain the “wreath” effect.

Download the mac osx WreatherHead app to make your own.
Not compatible with osx Lion.

Glitch

Too Many Forces

Eyes Open

Using FaceTracker by Jason Saragih web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html
ofxFaceTracker addon by Kyle McDonald github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker
Made with openFrameworks openframeworks.cc/