Trent Brooks
Creative Tech
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Brooks is a Sydney-based creative technologist with 15 years’ experience blending interactive design, creative code, and physical computing for cultural institutions, festivals and public exhibitions. As a lead at Lightwell and long-time freelancer, he ships end-to-end projects from concept and UI through software development and hardware integration, with work exhibited at events like the Sydney Design Festival and Museum Victoria. He specializes in generative visuals, data-driven experiences, computer vision and Arduino-based installations, and enjoys prototyping R&D-driven interactions. An active contributor to the openFrameworks community, he has improved networking and media components in that widely used C++ creative-coding toolkit—evidence of his pragmatic, systems-level approach to creative software. He is motivated by an open-source philosophy and cross-disciplinary collaboration, often bridging design, electronics and interactive storytelling in surprising ways.
15 years of coding experience
Diploma, Digital Media, Diploma, Digital Media at Sydney Institute of TechnologyCertificate, Graphic Design, Certificate, Graphic Design at Australian Graphic Design & Computer School
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
osc10
networking10
tcp10
opengl9
video-player9
playback9
media-playback9
videojs9
coding8
opencv7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openframeworks/openFrameworks
Aug 2013 - Sep 2015
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Trent primarily focused on improving the network functionality within the `openFrameworks` toolkit. Their contributions include adding a timeout feature for TCP client connections and removing unnecessary comments. Additionally, the user made changes to the OSC sender implementation, switching to sending simple messages by default. Further commits involved merging updates and addressing platform-specific dependencies and memory management within video playback.
raspberry-picppemscriptenosxwindows
trentbrooks/ofxPocoNetwork
Dec 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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