Apple: Working with Quartz Composer

You might not know it, but tucked away on those OS X install discs of yours are some magical applications that are grouped together as 'Developer Tools.' The big ticket item is XCode, Apple's IDE, but there are also lost of other tools in there that let you program in other ways.

One of the best examples of this is Quartz Composer, which allows you to manipulate OS X's Quartz graphic layer by dragging and dropping. Sound interesting? If so, then you really need to check out Working with Quartz Composer. This starter tutorial will get you up and running in no time.

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rockit

There are also custom plugins available for Quartz Composer. You can play a sound file (mov, mp3, stream, podcast) or control iTunes (previously impossible). Check it out:

http://www.qcplugins.com

May 15 2006 at 7:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Badger

Check out SteamSHIFT's site http://blogs.the-ocean.co.uk/~default

He does a ton of live visuals for us (Southampton band Gojira.co.uk) using Quartz Composer and posts a lot of his explorations up on his blog. Definately worth checking out..

February 15 2006 at 3:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jake Zerrer

Wow. I just started playing around with that two days ago. I made a nifty audio reactive screen saver with it. I love having a built in mic :)

February 14 2006 at 9:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jacques Lema

Since any quark composition can be used directly as a screensaver (just put it in the folder), why can't you do the same to use them as visualizers for iTunes. Surely one could have better visualizers than the crappy default iTunes ones.

February 14 2006 at 5:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Momo the Monster

I wrote a step-by-step tutorial to show off the power of the awesome 'Replicate in Time' feature at http://flow.la-va.org/?p=135.

Yay for spreading Quartz Composer loveliness!

February 14 2006 at 4:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Piff

Here is the link to the WebcamTweaker developer guide:

http://www.tweakersoft.com/WebcamTweakerHowtoFilter.html

February 14 2006 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Piff

After you create a nice effect you can use it with my
application webcamtweaker:
http://www.tweakersoft.com/webcamtweaker.html

It is similar to photobooth but records movies too and load
user generated composition.

Here is a link to a guide to create your own effects using Quartz Composer.

Regards
Marco