i drank the kool-aid has posted a little guide which linked to Momo’s last QC tutorial, “Lighting 3D Cubes and Moving them with Audio Input“. Unleash Your Inner Creativity (and Programmer) with Quartz Composer is a very quick and simple overview which covers loading an image, scaling it and moving it around, but this is […]

Here in Los Angeles the weather is currently sunny and warm – great for going to the park, but not so much for creating that Xmas/New Year’s Wintry feeling. Here’s a patch you can use to fill the room with snowy interactive goodness. Fire up your Projector, Big Screen TV, or Wrist-worn LCD Display and […]

DVCreators has put up a half an hour tutorial on Quartz Composer detailing how they have created their introduction graphics: I’ve always liked the super-dramatic light rays effect, but the light rays filters in Motion and Final Cut Pro take too long to render… and frankly, they are pretty lame. So I’ve been waiting for […]

Pimp my mobile Quartz Composer ‘Book: this shot by Flickrer qlc demonstrates just how attached some Mac visualists are to Quartz Composer. But with security protections, is every QC composition an island? Good news: there’s a fix. Quartz Composer gurus have had to face challenges bringing in network data: the problem is, to keep Quartz […]

Click to play Mrmr is an open protocol for mobile devices. It is used to dynamically create user interfaces on your iPod Touch or iPhone which respond to client apps in a multi-user performance environment. Okay, that sounds awfully dry. Let’s try that again. Mrmr lets you control Quartz Composer applications (or really , any […]

As noted in my Blackmagick Intensity review, we noticed some odd behavior with Quartz Composer introducing some very large latency from the Intensity Card. We some noted up to 45 frames of delay. It looks like this may very well be a bug with Quartz Composer, as Apple is now aware of the situation: From […]

Robert of Flight404 fame has posted his initial dabblings in Quartz Composer. I find it rather exciting that a Processing Ninja such as Robert can find inspiration in QC. I have a terrible head for languages – both human and machine – so I’ve been wondering whether a node-based environment may be easier for me […]