You draw them in — addon_config.mk , #include "ofxSomething.h" — and suddenly the blank ofApp has eyes, ears, a nervous twitch.
a fragment on distributed becoming I. Init There is a scatter at the start. Not a plan — a dispersal. ofx is the prefix of possibility: ofxGui, ofxKinect, ofxOpenCv, ofxMidi, ofxSyphon. Each one a lens, a limb, a leak. scatter ofx
Thus: = the acknowledgment that no single node contains truth. Truth is in the routing. Truth is in the ofAddListener(ofxSomeEvent, this, &ofApp::someCallback) . IV. The Code as Confession void ofApp::setup(){ // I admit I cannot see alone. kinect.setup(); // I admit I need rhythm from outside. midiIn.openPort(0); // I admit my memory fails. recorder.init(ofGetWidth(), ofGetHeight()); } Scatter is not chaos — it is organized forgetting . You offload depth sensing to ofxKinect . You offload GUI to ofxGui . You offload your own obsessions to ofxSurfing or ofxMio . You draw them in — addon_config
In openFrameworks, ofx addons live like satellite organs: one for computer vision, one for sound analysis, one for network osc, one for shader chaos. Each speaks a dialect of void update() . Not a plan — a dispersal
That buffer, that beautiful neglected buffer, is the real artwork.
They wrote ofx , and the wound became an interface.