C++ Art

Open-source C++ projects categorized as Art

Top 14 C++ Art Projects

  1. Sonic Pi

    Code. Music. Live.

    Project mention: Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-27

    It's not really a framework, but I've been having a lot of fun live coding music in Sonic Pi: https://sonic-pi.net/

    It has built-in functions for chords and scales and is pretty easy to make catchy loops.

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  3. LIEF

    LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats (C++, Python, Rust)

  4. geometrize

    :white_square_button: Geometrize is a desktop app that geometrizes images into geometric primitives

  5. score

    ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

    Project mention: OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-11

    I wrote a DAW (https://ossia.io) and a few dozen plugins and I can assure you that most plug-ins don't add latency.

    > There is no way eliminate CPU cycles being spent on whatever the plugin does.

    that's not how DAW works, they don't output audio immediately anyways, everything is buffered at the driver level or just above so that there's always 1 or 2 buffers of delay between the input and the output.

  6. Chataigne

    Artist-friendly Modular Machine for Art and Technology

    Project mention: Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-02

    I'm curious, did you ever come across Chataigne?

    https://github.com/benkuper/Chataigne

  7. SideFXLabs

  8. svg2shenzhen

    Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad PCB and footprint modules

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  10. context-free

    Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.

  11. gerbolyze

    Directly render SVG overlays into Gerber and Excellon files

  12. Sand-Table

    An open-source platform for building DIY sand tables (like the Sisyphus or ZenXY)

  13. samplebrain

    (GitHub mirror) A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin. (by aeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiouaeiou)

  14. ascii-art

    A C++ library to make everyday alphabets look much better on the terminal , this project uses OOPS concepts to make unique fonts and display letters on command line (by codewithnick)

    Project mention: Contributing To Open Source - C++ Edition | dev.to | 2024-10-08

    For my first issue of this week, I was tasked with adding a new letter to the drpepper font in the ascii-art library.

  15. BeatDrop-Music-Visualizer

    The Milkdrop2 Music Visualization Standalone, only for Windows

  16. nixie-counter

    An ESP8266-based 6-digit IN-12B nixie counter that queries Python APIs

  17. SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Art projects in C++? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Sonic Pi 11,025
2 LIEF 4,692
3 geometrize 1,977
4 score 1,569
5 Chataigne 1,311
6 SideFXLabs 1,059
7 svg2shenzhen 814
8 context-free 486
9 gerbolyze 363
10 Sand-Table 184
11 samplebrain 122
12 ascii-art 75
13 BeatDrop-Music-Visualizer 46
14 nixie-counter 8

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