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ofxMetAPI Prototype 1.0

April 6, 2015

Major Studio 2Met Media LabopenFrameworksAPIs & social dataMuseums & The MetPrototypesUser research & testing
The Met

I am working on an OpenFrameworks add-on called ofxMet. 

ofxMet is an add-on for openFrameworks (v0.8.0+) that allows users to access the Metropolitan Museum of Art's API in C++. The add-on lets you pull data from the Met's digital collection such as image links and other information about an art piece.

Prototype I has incorporated the following functions:

  1. accessing Met API
  2. grabbing images based on search term
  3. pagination
  4. printing images to screen in a grid based on user defined grid size 
  5. scrolling 

Here is an example of searching "blue" in the Met's digital collection.