Quartz Composer

jrc313 · Post by **jrc313** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:55 pm 0

Since the release of Tiger, I've been constantly amazed at the amount of fun people are having with it. Surely you shouldn't be allowed to get this much entertainment from an OS?

I think all the reasons I had for resisting a Mac Mini have gone out the window.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:12 pm 0

jrc313 wrote:Since the release of Tiger, I've been constantly amazed at the amount of fun people are having with it. Surely you shouldn't be allowed to get this much entertainment from an OS?

I think all the reasons I had for resisting a Mac Mini have gone out the window.

I've never been much of a Mac evangelist but this release is really exciting, if you're into graphics and music it's like a sandbox.

Here's the GUI. You just drag patches from the bay on the left and link them together in the editor, then adjust their parameters in the floating window on the right. It has rudimentary support for layers which involves copying and pasting as far as I can tell, it'd be even more powerful if you could group layers into sets as in Photoshop.

The viewer is realtime, even RSS feeds are updated on the fly as you work.

I'd love to see what this could do with a midi input at a concert.

Edit: The search field in the editor has Spotlight functionality, so your searches yield instant results. Very impressive.

jrc313 · Post by **jrc313** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:20 pm 0

I love those cable connectors. Are they a standard GUI widget?

It's great to see the stuff you guys are coming up with - even if we can't all see them move. Keep them coming

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:27 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:It has rudimentary support for layers which involves copying and pasting as far as I can tell

Right click on the yellow numbers on output patches, then you can set render layer.

You can also use z-order/depth for stacking things as it is modifyable.

matt

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:05 pm 0

OK, a bit shit (I'm no artist) but wanted something Summery, so here's lots of flying daisies with a sunny moving background. I want to add bumble-bees and stuff.

Daisy

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:11 pm 0

Geeza that is lovely, it could be a level from Super Paper Mario Rez

Matt - thanks for the layers tip. Works a treat.

Attack of the Mutant rotating glowing cubes

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:16 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:Attack of the Mutant rotating glowing cubes

Lord Jesus. Excellent work.

Nothing I can think of is better than spinning Camel cubes....nope, still can't think of anything better.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:20 pm 0

How rude of me - here's the file.

http://homepage.mac.com/rod.steele/file ... l_cube.zip

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:25 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:
Rod_S wrote:Attack of the Mutant rotating glowing cubes
Lord Jesus. Excellent work. Nothing I can think of is better than spinning Camel cubes....nope, still can't think of anything better.

Better in 3D of course

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:00 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
GeeZa wrote:
Rod_S wrote:Attack of the Mutant rotating glowing cubes
Lord Jesus. Excellent work. Nothing I can think of is better than spinning Camel cubes....nope, still can't think of anything better.
Better in 3D of course

That'd be a nice desktop for a 20" iMac...

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:24 pm 0

Please tell me that last one's a render, or my credit card is going to escape.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:33 pm 0

Acronym wrote:Please tell me that last one's a render, or my credit card is going to escape.

It's a render made from one of Jeff's original sprites, but there's nothing stopping you from importing it into Quartz Composer as a sprite, object, movie, image, anything really

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:59 pm 0

Speaking of Jeff - where the hell is he? Not like him to miss all this!

matt

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:30 am 0

GeeZa wrote:OK, a bit shit (I'm no artist) but wanted something Summery, so here's lots of flying daisies with a sunny moving background. I want to add bumble-bees and stuff.

Here's daisy with a bee added. Hope you don't mind.

http://www.ewtoo.org/~matt/forums/Daisy.qtz

matt

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:01 am 0

matt wrote:
GeeZa wrote:OK, a bit shit (I'm no artist) but wanted something Summery, so here's lots of flying daisies with a sunny moving background. I want to add bumble-bees and stuff.

Here's daisy with a bee added. Hope you don't mind.

http://www.ewtoo.org/~matt/forums/Daisy.qtz

matt

Of course I don't mind!! It's a bit humbling with you and Rod to be honest, you're both so damn good with these gadgets.