E15:oGFx is a tool for the generation and exploration of organic 3D forms originating from 2D animations.
E15:oGFx, or simply oGFx, is an element of E15 -- a blanket descriptor for much of the work that took place in John Maeda's Physical Language Workshop between the years of 2007 and 2008 in the MIT Media Lab. E15:oGFx was, in fact, the first of such projects falling under the "E15" designation, and was developed by myself and Luis Blackaller in the summer of 2007.
The underlying motivation of E15:oGFx was to explore the set of 3D forms produced from procedurally generated 2D animations. E15:oGFx uses an embedded Python interpreter to provide a malleable programming interface for writing programs within it. By embedding a Python interpreter, we allow the user to update, modify, and interrogate the runtime state of of the E15:oGFx program at any point during its execution. This is in contrast to the traditional <compile, run, debug, repeat> style of the majority of today's programming environments.
Like many of its livecoding siblings, E15:oGFx has solid support for user-defined GLSL-based shaders, as well as a mechanism for modifying shader parameters from within Python. We also take advantage of GPU-accelerated image manipulation through the use of Apple's Core Image framework.
You can find more up to date images on my blog, my flickr account, Luis' MyStudio page, or his flickr account.
A (rather dated) introductory video can be found here.
