Mint: A Framework for Creating Digital Multimedia Research Systems in the Arts and Sciences

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Students

Rama Hoetzlein, Media Arts and Technology
Wes Smith, Media Arts and Technology
Graham Wakefield, Media Arts and Technology
Lance Putnam, Media Arts and Technology

Faculty Advisors

Stephen Pope, Media Arts & Technology
Tobias Hollerer, Computer Science

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Media Arts & Technology

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Abstract

MINT is an open-source multimedia framework to enable new media art, digital music and scientific research through a consistent, efficient programming interface for video, graphics, synthesized audio and external devices. MINT enables collaboration by interconnecting tools in various disciplines through its modular architecture and generalized event passing system. Precise event timing, spatialized audio, network rendering, and customizable graphics widgets are available in MINT through an interface for both novice and expert developers with consistent behavior on Mac, Windows and Linux. The goal of MINT is to eliminate the technical groundwork and data connectivity necessary to engage in interdisciplinary research.

Sketch of the MINT Platform