Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)

2010

Cinder Launched

Software/Tool

The hero graphic on the Cinder library's own homepage: a glossy red metaball form breaking into droplets against a dark ground -- the kind of real-time C++ graphics work the library was built for. It is a project illustration, not a 2010 launch artefact.
The hero graphic on the Cinder library's own homepage: a glossy red metaball form breaking into droplets against a dark ground -- the kind of real-time C++ graphics work the library was built for. It is a project illustration, not a 2010 launch artefact. Cinder (libcinder.org). Hero image from the Cinder project's own homepage.

Cinder is an open-source creative coding software tool developed by Andrew Bell and released to the public in 2010. With a C++ based programming library, Cinder is comparable to the similarly C++ based openFrameworks, which Zach Lieberman began developing around 2004 and 2005 with Theo Watson and Arturo Castro.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Andrew Bell, Arturo Castro, Theo Watson, Zach Lieberman

Movements

creative coding, generative art

Filed under

Ideas
creative coding, tools
Technologies
C++, Cinder, open source, openFrameworks, programming
People
Andrew Bell, Arturo Castro, Theo Watson, Zach Lieberman

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