Scatter Ofx -

Every ofx addon is a scar from a previous need. Someone needed to track a hand. Someone needed to spit out MIDI. Someone needed to glitch a texture beyond recognition.

You are the host of ghosts. Each ofx addon is a minor deity, and you, the heretic priest, pray not with belief but with ofEnableBlendMode(OF_BLEND_MODE_ADD) . So write this into your setup() :

And you realize: scatter is not fragmentation. Scatter is polyphonic identity . scatter ofx

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.

This is the loneliness of the modular self. Connected everywhere, held nowhere. But sometimes — rarely — the scatter aligns. Every ofx addon is a scar from a previous need

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

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. Someone needed to glitch a texture beyond recognition

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