Quartz Composer in Action: Rhythmic Glitch, Generative Cities
To start our Monday morning right, here's some nice, rhythmic glitch in the Mac tool Quartz Composer, using a combination of custom and off-the-shelf plug-ins -- bless you, modularity. It's a lovely demonstration of how having an ample set of pluggable tools can help you to produce the results you ... read more.
MixEmergency, Serato-Driven Mac Visual App, Gains Loads of New Features
MixEmergency is a little-known Mac visual app, but it's got a passionate following. (How do I know? I get excited shouts from them every now and then.) With so many options for live visuals, what would inspire such enthusiasm? Simple: MixEmergency, in addition to some powerful features, can integrate with ... read more.
Apple Magic Trackpad as Multi-Touch Input, and Cross-Platform Multi-Touch
Apple today, alongside beefed-up iMacs with quad-core and Mac Pro towers with twelve, introduced a $69 Bluetooth trackpad accessory with multi-touch gesture support. http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ I'm not a huge fan of trackpads over mice, but yes, this does give you a cheap multi-touch input to play with. And we haven't seen much in ... read more.
CoGe, Quartz Composer Modular: New Beta, How to Use It for Visuals
CoGe 1.0 - Tutorial 2 - Using the preview window to forward key/mouse events from luma beamerz on Vimeo. CoGe, the semi-modular, Quartz Composer-powered, free visualist tool for Mac has gotten a significant new beta build. Added in this version: MSAA anti-aliasing for rendering (very nice). OpenSoundControl support (OSC is natively supported in ... read more.
Resolume 3.2 Released: Quartz Composer, Higher Viz Quality in PC+Mac A/V App
What's New in Resolume 3.2 from Resolume on Vimeo. Resolume 3.2 is now out in the wild; this all-in-one audiovisual performance app for Mac and Windows continues to improve. (The most recent convert I know: Flying Lotus, better known for his music than his visuals, is having a blast.) The big news ... read more.
Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro; About Those New GPUs, Visualist Advice
As you probably know, Apple refreshed their MacBook Pro line, upgrading the 13", 15", and 17" models to new NVIDIA GPUs and the 15" and 17" units to Core i5 and i7 CPUs. It's a nice refresh for Mac fans, though a relatively modest one. Anyone hoping for a big ... read more.
CoGe 1.0 Beta 2, Open Source Quartz Composer Modular Visual App
CoGe 1.0 Beta 2 Teaser and interactive Quad Warp demo from luma beamerz on Vimeo. CoGe 1.0 is now in its second public beta, bringing this modular, Quartz-Composer-based visualist app to Mac users. 1.0 introduced a new rendering pipeline, new user interface, new UI, and richer Quartz Composer support. Every single ... read more.
Mac OS X 10.6.3 Promises Quartz Composer, OpenGL Fixes
This cat is ... slightly camouflaged. Photo (CC) Tambako The Jaguar (but yes, this is a snow leopard). Mac OS X 10.6.3 looks like it may be a significant update for graphics performance, but good luck trying to figure out what's changed from the vague update log. There is mention of ... read more.
From-Scratch, Omni-Platform Visual Plugins: openFrameworks + FFGL Now Available
A dancer celebrates OpenFrameworks ... and we celebrate OpenFrameworks goodness meeting up with FreeFrameGL flexibility. Photo (CC-BY-SA) aniara. The folks at Resolume have given us a fantastic gift: now, you can make your own FreeFrameGL plug-ins with OpenFrameworks. Say wha? Okay, so, first, let's consider the problem. You want to create a cool ... read more.
FreeFrameGL Effects Pack; More Platform-Portable Visuals to Come?
You've found a cool effect. It makes use of your GPU. Why shouldn't it work in more than one place? And why shouldn't you be able to easily port standard-format effects in code-for-artists environments like OpenFrameworks and Processing? With a new plug-in pack and further progress on development, FreeFrameGL promises ... read more.
