Filed under: Multimedia, Odds and ends
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]
You may
not have noticed, but our posts here at TUAW have had a bit of a 
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.
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