Quartz Composer

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:05 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:idn't quite know what to do with mouse input apart from turning processes on-and-off.

How about mouse tracking with realtime distortions?

This is the twirl distortion but you can use any of the distortion FX instead. In addition to that you could have a trail of particles following your mouse and responding to audio input + gravity, maybe with cycling colours if you wanna get heavy with the eye candy. Slap a 3D RSS feed in there for the hell of it.

I bet you can trigger the distortions with audio input too.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:19 pm 0

Ooooh, you can paint with lights...

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:57 pm 0

I'm really shocked Yak hasn't posted about this.

matt

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:51 pm 0

Graphite RSS feed with trails

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:03 pm 0

Goatdammit... where do you people find the time?

This Fucking Cube Life (TM) is ruining everything for me... but keep up the good work!

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:08 pm 0

Rod is Freelance and I am off work due to short-term sickness.

My latest QTZ to follow within the hour.

matt

tufty · Post by **tufty** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:30 pm 0

I have to say, I haven't been more excited about a tool for - well, forever.

Sadly, I'm working 20 hour days and don't have time to play.

Simon

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:35 pm 0

Blimey, got carried away.

Here's my first: "Rainbow Comets" just a screen saver, no music reaction.

Slight ammend, no use me posting a zip file when it's oonly 44kb!

matt

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:48 pm 0

Fucking hell Matt, that's gorgeous when it's moving, the colours are so deep and saturated

Lush.

I'll post some more experiments when I've had a few glasses of wine...

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:57 pm 0

Can someone make movies for the less technologically fortunate of us, pleeeeeeeeease? (x100 etc).

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:44 pm 0

Acronym wrote:Can someone make movies for the less technologically fortunate of us, pleeeeeeeeease? (x100 etc).

A mac with Quicktime 7 would be needed to view these. Efforts to export them to anything else would be met with a 100x file size increase and a loss in quality.

matt

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:55 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:I'll post some more experiments when I've had a few glasses of wine...

Wine, eh? This definitely calls for something else...

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:59 pm 0

Yeah, I tried exporting your file at various settings but it lost all the clarity and smoothness.

Here's some still from it for Acro:

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:01 pm 0

dtj wrote:
Rod_S wrote:I'll post some more experiments when I've had a few glasses of wine...
Wine, eh? This definitely calls for something else...

A drink's too wet without one

Now, to work with this thing...

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:21 pm 0

More caps from two of the demo files, remember that all this can be audio reactive, respond to keyboard and mouse input etc.

The example scenes are easy to understand by just reverse engineering them and experimenting. The demos are distributed as open source according to the license agreement, so it's fine to borrow code to help with constructing your own projects.

This has got to be the most fun piece of software I've ever used.