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by Mat Lu Mar 6th 2007 at 10:00PM

Quartz Composer was one of the coolest new technologies Apple added in Tiger. It allows designers to create some amazingly complex motion graphics with comparatively little work. (Core Animation is likely an analogous advance in Leopard). The Japanese designer Futurismo Zugakousaku has used Quartz Composer to generate some dazzling motion graphics, which can conveniently be used as screen savers in OS X (place the QTZ files in /Library/Screen Savers/). His Quartz Composer Samples page features 33 QTZ files for download, some of which are simply mesmerizing. The site is feeling the Digg effect right now, but I managed to grab several of them as well as watch his sample movie. I was quite impressed by what I saw, particularly considering the fact that he says he made each of them in less than an hour. Zugakousaku says of himself: "I want to make a work like a new surrealist of the new generation." I think he's already achieved a lot.

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roobois

Really! Isn't pts the coolest? I want to be just like him when I grow up on the internet. Then I can know about cool screensavers years before anyone else.

March 08 2007 at 12:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Burns

Oh pts... 2004? You really have your finger on the pulse of the screen saver world. you are so cool!

March 08 2007 at 12:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Audun

Cool. Quartz Composer is a cool program. I didn't know that I just could open his files and see how he made them. And add some features of course...

March 07 2007 at 1:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pts

Freaking Digg. This guy's been doing stuff since just after Tiger came out; I downloaded his 20th Century Journey saver in, like, 2004.

March 07 2007 at 12:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gruff

@Ronnie:

Quartz Composer is fairly easy to leartn on your own, but the Developer Tools that comes with 10.4 includes several tutorials. Before making your screen saver, though, consider the following points:

1. The screen saver would rely on Quartz Composer to work, so that mean no non-OS X systems (no Windows, Linux, etc.)

2. Quartz Composer is also 10.4 specific -- projects won't work on 10.3 or earlier

If you're fine with the above, have at it!

March 07 2007 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tåkelur

hypnotic!
Quartz Composer is fun, I just wish qtz-files would run at a decent speed in Keynote. There's something terribly inefficient going on there!

March 07 2007 at 6:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ronnie

Where do you find instructions on making a screen save for a business concept. I'd like to incorporta this into our business for people


Ronnie

http://www.disksave.com

March 07 2007 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

your nuts if you go to this site without downloading his amazing screen saver called hotel gadget which is up to a new verison. it is endlessly entertaining.

March 06 2007 at 10:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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