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Quartz Composer – Iris Transition » read article

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

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

Quartz Composer – Movie Time-line Thumbnail Viewer » read article

Here’s a tool I have made to create an instant contact sheet of thumbnails from a movie. I use it to analyze animations that I have digitised from my own video collection and produce illustrations for my lectures.

Quartz Composer and the Nintendo Wii Remote – QCWii a demo application » read article

Download Application: qcwii_v0.1.zip
Download Source Code: qcwii_v0.1_src.zip

QCWii is an application that lets a user connect a Nintendo Wii Remote to the mac and control a simple teapot. It is a proof of concept for a digital puppet controller. The final project controls a face – where the mouth is real-time video and the eyes a pre-recorded video loops that can be controlled from the wii remotes buttons. Please see the following website for more details.

Controlling Quartz Composer with Speech Commands » read article

First draft:

Here we go! I did this once then failed to remember how I did it – and I’m not surprised – because the functionality to attach a speech command to an application specific keyboard command “Define a Keyboard Command” or to trigger specific key press can only be accessed by SPEAKING a command – highlighted below in the Speech Commands window.

Quartz Composer Video Matrix » read article

Here’s a screenshot (larger picture in post) of a demo patch that tiles an image (still or video) onto a user selected number of tiles. The tiles can be fixed or animated. Read on for limitations…

Download link: quartz composer video matrix test files 001 – 003

Using Magpie RSS to scrape blog headlines to html » read article

Creating a mashup often requires manipulating RSS feeds and exploring XML formats. MagpieRSS is an excellent tool that can simplify manipulations with RSS feeds. This article illustrates a simple, introductory use of this powerful tool.

Basic Telematics using SMS and the Web » read article

“Flickr Peep Show” connected mobile phone networks and a popular internet social photography network by means of SMS messaging and explored public display and projection. See Flickr Peep Show for more information. If you wish to do this style of creative telematic work, read on!

There are a number of ways to get going with SMS (Short Message Service) and web page integration. Some techniques are trickier and more expensive than others. The technique here uses a Bluetooth-Enabled Mobile Phone, A Bluetooth-Enabled Mac/Linux Server and a free server tool called UltraSMS

tiger reflections – quartz composer patch » read article

Download: tiger_reflections.qtz.zip

A Quartz Composer patch that will automatically produce a cool, adjustable reflection from an image, text or video input.

qc stereoscopic recorder 0.1 » read article

Download QCStereoscopicRecorder 0.1 (Universal Binary)

QCStereoscopic Recorder is a mac app that produces real time 3D anaglyph images viewable with red / cyan glasses.