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Quartz Composer Art / Screensavers
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.[Via Digg]
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john said 10:58PM on 3-06-2007
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.
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Ronnie said 1:21AM on 3-07-2007
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
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Tkelur said 6:04AM on 3-07-2007
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!
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pts said 12:14PM on 3-07-2007
Freaking Digg. This guy's been doing stuff since just after Tiger came out; I downloaded his 20th Century Journey saver in, like, 2004.
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Audun said 1:10PM on 3-07-2007
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...
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Daniel Burns said 12:20AM on 3-08-2007
Oh pts... 2004? You really have your finger on the pulse of the screen saver world. you are so cool!
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Destro said 1:05AM on 3-08-2007
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.
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Gruff said 5:56PM on 3-08-2007
@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!
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