Anton Marini
Co-Founder at OZU
New York, New York, United States
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Anton Marini is an award-winning multimedia engineer and co-founder with 17 years building realtime video and imaging tools used across industry and art. He created Syphon, an open standard for realtime video workflows adopted by Adobe and thousands of users, and has contributed core graphics features to openFrameworks and emulator rendering improvements in OpenEmu. His work spans product engineering, R&D and startups—shipping cinema tooling acquired by Apple, AI-driven video editing for TRASH, and bespoke ML/video solutions for clients like HBO and YouTube. A practicing video performance and software artist, he blends improvisational live visuals with deep systems-level graphics and shader expertise. He teaches and researches in academic and arts institutions, and quietly influences production pipelines through open source and commercial integrations. Based in New York, he pairs studio-born creativity with production-grade engineering to make complex video tech feel immediate and playable.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Integrated Digital Media, Master of Science (M.S.), Integrated Digital Media at New York UniversityHustler., Hustling, A+, Hustler., Hustling, A+ at The Streets
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
graphic10
openframeworks10
coding10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
emulation10
performance-optimization9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
cocoa7
swift6
macos6
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
OpenEmu/OpenEmu
Jan 2009 - Apr 2013
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:280 commits, 2 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on implementing and refining video filter functionalities within the OpenEmu project, a retro video game emulator. Their contributions included integrating and optimizing GLSL shaders for scaling, such as 4xBR. They also worked on various fixes and enhancements to the rendering pipeline, including the incorporation of a new screen aspect ratio correction and a rudimentary Syphon server implementation. Additionally, the user addressed bugs with OpenGL context handling and contributed to the user interface with a setup assistant and a working controller test.
game-boyobjective-cemulatorretrovideo-game
openframeworks/openFrameworks
Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Anton contributed significantly to the openFrameworks project, implementing blend mode support and deprecating legacy functions related to alpha blending. Their work involved modifying core graphics files (`ofGraphics.cpp`, `ofGraphics.h`, and `ofTypes.h`) to introduce new blend modes such as ADD, MULTIPLY, SUBTRACT, and SCREEN, and integrating them with existing alpha blending functionality. The user also modified `ofConstants.h` to define blend mode constants. This work enhances the project's visual capabilities, allowing for more creative and flexible graphical effects.
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