Cinder (programming library)

This article is about the open source programming library. For OpenStack's block storage component, see OpenStack § Block Storage (Cinder).

Cinder is an open-source^[1] programming library designed to give the C++ language advanced visualization abilities. It was released as a public tool in spring 2010 and can be viewed in many ways as a C++-based alternative to tools like the Java-based Processing library, Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash. It is also comparable to the C++ based openFrameworks; the main difference is that Cinder uses more system-specific libraries for better performance while openFrameworks affords better control over its underlying libraries.

Cinder
Original author(s)	Andrew Bell
Developer(s)	Andrew Bell, Hai Nguyen, The Barbarian Group
Stable release	0.9.2 / April 13, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-04-13)
Repository	github.com/cinder/Cinder
Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, Linux
Type	Application framework
License	Simplified BSD License
Website	libcinder.org

Unlike Flash and Silverlight, Cinder is generally used in a non-browser environment. This, combined with the speed provided by C++, makes the library more appropriate for heavily abstracted projects, including art installations, commercial campaigns and other advanced animation work.

See also

• Processing (Java)
• openFrameworks (C++)