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daisyrust.com is the web presence for ian grant, uk based artist and university lecturer. Over time, I intend to showcase my creative practice across the fields of digital art, creative programming and teaching and share my work in the full spirit of open source!
Quartz Composer Interactive Soundlines on Vimeo » read article
posted by ian grant on June 10, 2009 at 10:53 pm | in quartz composer | no comments
soundlines in quartz composer from Ian Grant on Vimeo.
SoundLines: Sound activated lines for onedotzero » read article
posted by ian grant on June 10, 2009 at 10:48 pm | in quartz composer | no comments
POST IN PROGRESS Some nice experiments using Kinemes OpenGL and 3D tools… onedotzero
Great when sound activated - good for graphing!
Harmonographs with Quartz Composer » read article
posted by ian grant on June 5, 2009 at 11:20 pm | in quartz composer, video | Comments Off
A harmongraph generator made with quartz composer. Using transparent png as a texture, the composition modulates the x, y position using sin / cos waves while the image scales. Expensive and a little slow, but the process of watching the images being made is nice. Some of the final images produced by changing x, y position, parameters to the waves, switching presets, alpha and colors (using a MIDI controller) were usable as stills and textural elements.
Download Link: harmonogaphs_001.zip
Real-Time Video Depth Computation in Quartz Composer » read article
posted by ian grant on June 5, 2009 at 11:01 pm | in quartz composer | Comments Off
A patch that adapts an Apple example to produce a real-time depth computation from the isight camera. This is interesting but a bit of a crasher!
Experiments in Digital Puppetry Published by Springer » read article
posted by ian grant on August 1, 2008 at 10:00 pm | in digital art hacks, exhibitions, publication, quartz composer | Comments Off
I’ve written a chapter in the following book: “Experiments in Digital Puppetry. Video Hybrids in Quartz Composer”. It involves the material on this site and elsewhere that describes real-time video processing and the use of Quartz Composer in performance. I feel quite proud to be in such interesting and diverse company. The chapters on digital puppetry are really welcome. The subject deserves a book all of it’s own!
I have a chapter on Digital Puppetry and real-time performance systems (including Quartz Composer) in the following book:
Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen
Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada. Selected Papers
978-3-540-79486-8_1
Editors: Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Müller Arisona
I’ll post more details and some excerpts asap.
If you are in a position to, please order the book for your college or local library!
Exhibition of ‘Texturisr’ at “Sense Detectives” » read article
posted by ian grant on February 14, 2007 at 10:32 am | in exhibitions, portfolio | Comments Off
I have a piece of ‘net.art’ called ‘Texturisr’ in an exhibition at Watermans, London, between 17th March – 1st April 2007.
I completed ‘Texturisr’ in 2005 as a nod to the then booming obsession with ‘Web 2.0′ and took advantage of the Flickr API. Flickr was then not owned by Yahoo. I was also interested in the public display of personal images and the interactions with art that mobile phones and SMS make possible. I have added a few other aspects to the project for this exhibition included a small element of natural language processing - my take on the ’sense detecting’ of the exhibition title.
Quartz Composer - Tiger Reflections Patch Version 2 » read article
posted by ian grant on February 13, 2007 at 10:59 pm | in graphics, moving image, quartz composer | 1 comment
Download: reflections_fxplug_V2.qtz.zip
A second version of my ‘tiger reflections patch’. Now with a simpler interface and Noise Industries ‘FXFactory’ ready!
The patch is simplifed and slightly more reliable than the previous version. The generated image can now rotate without producing artifacts. The gradient setup is now automated. Less control but simpler. I have done this to create a test composition that works in ‘FXFactory’ - which is very simple to use. It really unlocks another realm for Quartz Composer developers.
Quartz Composer - Aqua Style Circle » read article
posted by ian grant on February 13, 2007 at 10:25 pm | in graphics, quartz composer | Comments Off
The patch does a simple thing of producing an ‘aquafied’ circle. I created this patch when I was exploring masks and how best to create a circle using the current Quartz Composer toolset. The patch contains some useful techniques working between pixels and Quartz Composer units. It is also an exercise in ‘pixel based positioning’.
Quartz Composer - Iris Transition » read article
posted by ian grant on February 13, 2007 at 4:35 pm | in graphics, moving image, quartz composer | no comments
I’ve composed a patch that creates an iris transition. You can position it in x - y space, control the iris size and feather the edge of the mask.
Digital Puppetry Project Using Quartz Composer » read article
posted by ian grant on February 12, 2007 at 11:11 pm | in installation, moving image, music, performance, quartz composer | 2 comments
I have recently completed the first prototype of a major digital puppetry project that relied heavily on Quartz Composer and used it in the arena of live performance familiar to vj-ers, visual artists and visualists. I wont include the full patch, due to dependencies but here’s a component, an instant garbage matting and blue-screening demo:
Download Link: garbage_matte_bluescreen_demo_002.qtz.zip
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