Metal on macOS excels at live visuals; try a free Gaussian splat tool

Developer Anton Marini, aka vade, is bringing back the legacy of Quartz Composer and proving Apple’s visual APIs are ready for real-time. Have a look—and watch what you can do with 3D Gaussian splats (if you know you know).

Inter-App Visuals on Mac: Syphon API Opens Up Visual Collaboration

Syphon Teaser from vade on Vimeo. In the audio realm, piping audio and MIDI between apps is commonplace (see ReWire, JACK, Soundflower, IAC MIDI, etc.). But imagine if you could take textures and frames from one app and share them, live and real-time, with another app. That’s the vision of Syphon, a Mac-only, open-source framework […]

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2010

Quartz Composer in Action: Rhythmic Glitch, Generative Cities

To start our Monday morning right, here’s some nice, rhythmic glitch in the Mac tool Quartz Composer, using a combination of custom and off-the-shelf plug-ins — bless you, modularity. It’s a lovely demonstration of how having an ample set of pluggable tools can help you to produce the results you want. PXN_richterizz from pixel noizz […]

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2010

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