In March of 2020, COSA hosted artist Roy MacDonald at the University of Denver to create a new addon for openFrameworks, LineaDeTiempo. The focus is on making a new timeline tool for the creative coding C++ library, one that is easy to use and allows for a time based modality. It is a significant challenge to coordinate timing of events in programming, and a timeline based tool bridges the gap for those who are used to video and animation tools. Roy's addon is minimal but powerful and requires very little code to add to your project. Roy also gave a lecture to a creative coding class about his creation of open-source tools and how some of them are being used for large scale political expression in Chile.

From the github for ofxLineaDeTiempo:

ofxTimeline , created by James George, has long been the go-to timeline tool for openFramworks. It has been modified and tailored numerous times over the years for specific things but current versions are not as accessible as they could be to the beginner user. ofxLineaDeTiempo comes into play in order to fulfill this need, making it easy to anyone to easily utilize a functional timeline with both basic and advanced features. The key is that it requires minimal coding and is deeply connected with ofxGui.

As I could not use ofxTimeline as the name of this addon, ofxTimeline2 sounded boring, and considering that I am a native Spanish speaker it made sense to use a Spanish word instead. Línea De Tiempo is the literal translation of Timeline into Spanish, hence ofxLineaDeTiempo