r_e_c_u_r started as a video sampler / looper - using python on rpi to trigger clips via omxplayer. as the project grew i wanted more flexibity on how the videos were played so decided to replace omxplayer with a custom openframeworks app called c_o_n_j_u_r

c_o_n_j_u_r is the custom c++ video backend for r_e_c_u_r. they communicate via osc locally.

with an openframeworks backend it is now possible to play shaders in r_e_c_u_r, both to generate video, and to process and mix video sources - samples, live video input etc. somewhat confusingly i often refer to c_o_n_j_u_r as the shader playing engine within r_e_c_u_r , although technically this repo is doing more than just shaders that was the name i gave it to start with ...

ofxVideoArtTools

as i began to use openframeworks more for video-art projects on raspberry pi i relised there were some basic blocks i was repeating in each project. i tried to tidy this up by extracting these blocks into an extension repo called ofxVideoArtTools. this is a wrapper around other extensions and classes i used often. this repo, recurBOY - a pi0 spinoff- and others all use these extensions to 'patch' together different video instruments.