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Big Fat Tweets

July 2, 2008 Posted in Animation, Geekery, Graphics, tutorial by Matt

Yes, it’s been a while, but what do you expect from an experimental play-blog when the intrepid blogger has been busy with Greek evening classes? I’m breaking radio silence because something Russell Davies said the other day prompted another of my occasional bouts of playing with Quartz Composer. Russell was bemoaning the lack of a […]


Screencast: Creating an iTunes Music Visualizer in Quartz Composer

December 5, 2007 Posted in Animation, Design, Graphics, Mac, Screencast, tutorial by Matt

I’ve put together a basic screencast tutorial which introduces you to Apple’s Quartz Composer, the graphical programming environment which ships with OS X. Quartz Composer is a graphics generator, capable of drawing 3D graphics, animations, and all sorts of Good Stuff. And you make it work just by dragging little boxes about and connecting them […]


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