Scatter Ofx Apr 2026

You draw them in — addon_config.mk , #include "ofxSomething.h" — and suddenly the blank ofApp has eyes, ears, a nervous twitch.

They wrote ofx , and the wound became an interface.

That buffer, that beautiful neglected buffer, is the real artwork.

ofSetWindowTitle("scatter ofx"); ofSetFrameRate(30); // just enough to feel alive. Then walk away from the machine. Let the scatter run without you — cameras watching an empty room, MIDI clocks ticking into silence, OSC messages piling up in a buffer no one flushes.

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 is how the real enters the simulated. Kinect sees your skeleton as 640×480 × 30fps. Syphon streams your inner state to another app, another mind. ofx is not a library. It is a stance: I am not complete. I accept the graft.

ofxFaceTracker finds eyes where you swore there were only pixels. ofxAudioUnit hums a frequency that matches your breath. ofxWebSocket receives a message from a stranger’s machine in Berlin: /light/blue 0.8

What remains of you is just the router: kinect.getPixels() → shader.setTexture() → midiOut.sendNoteOn() . A scatter of ofx means no core. No single point of failure — but no single point of meaning either.

This is the loneliness of the modular self. Connected everywhere, held nowhere. But sometimes — rarely — the scatter aligns.

You run the app. The GUI sliders move nothing physical. The depth image shows a ghost that looks like your torso. OSC messages float out into the local network — received by no one, logged by no one, cherished by no one.