I’ve been using midi controllers with Quartz Composer for a while now and mostly they work, however I’ve just recently discovered some major bugs in the current (10.4.5) midi implementation which I wanted to share information and workarounds on here. Unfortunately for some of them there is no easy solution and it severely limits [...]
I did visuals last night at Fairy Tales at the Coronet together with Quadroptica and Inside-Us-All. I used my latest build of Quartonian VAST and a second machine running Grid Pro. A couple of things have come out of this including my decision to expand the scope of the Quartonian blog.
I’ve been thinking more about state storing and logic processing in Quartz Composer based on some comments made by Vade. Currently the options are very limited and seemingly that’s a deliberate design decision on Apple’s part, you’re not supposed to store state in a Quartz Composer composition. So what’s the options? Hack [...]
The QC Hidden patches work fine on Mac’s that don’t have Clockskew’s enabler plugin installed. I tested this by compiling an XCode App that uses them and copying it to another machine which didn’t have that plugin.
Quartonian VSM is a specialised simplified tool for creating beat synced animations from folders full of still images.
1.0 is now out, grab it from this page.
I’ve been busy recently on another Quartz Composer project which has now seen the light of day. Organoptics FX is a set of 31 plugins for Avid Xpress editing systems created as Quartz Composer patches using Noise Industries Factory Floor.
This is a commercial product but will not effect Quartonian development which will remain a free [...]
According to info from Pol 10.4.4 included ability to change fonts dynamically when rendering in Quartz Composer and several other bug fixes and improvements. Also the new Quartz Composer is already native on intel and the new iMac’s are ‘very fast’ for Quartz Composer.
The dynamic font changing is worth the price of admission alone!
For those with ATI Radeon video cards, installing the optional drivers from ATI will enable some very useful options including 4x Full Scene Anti Aliasing (supersampling).
Quartz Composer has not been significantly updated since it’s initial release in 10.4.0, this is despite there being several nasty bugs in javascript support plus many other issues.
Quartonian 0.4 is coming. Need another week to finish it and been very busy during my time in Australia.
Version 0.4 will have the main tree of the composition simplified to allow easier modification, plus more layouts, midi hooks and better default effects chains and have a toggle to switch between “normal” and “hex screen” [...]
I finally got time to test the new ibook model with the Radeon 9550. I loaded up my Quartonian patch, some other Quartz Composer files and the Motion compatibility checker on a USB stick and visited the Apple store in Regent St.
The new ibook is completely core image accelerated. Quartonian ran at a [...]
This information has been out for a while now but I thought I’d summarise and link to it all from one place. Currently there is no official API to allow adding of new functionality to Quartz Composer. However it appears that all the functionality is there to allow it, but for whatever reason [...]
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