You’ll need the following plugins and macros:
kineme.net/QuartzComposerPatches/StructureTools/0.1
kineme.net/release/AlphaBlendMode/10
kineme.net/release/GLTools/16
hybridvisuals.nl/downloads/vdmx-mouse-macro/

Installation instructions can be found on the respective sites.

As mentioned, I really would love to hear your feedback on the new style of commentary. I feel it’s a lot less boring, but I hope you can still follow everything. Let me know

Quartz Composer tutorial #7: Awesome Line Drawer from goto10 on Vimeo.

The patch is available here.

Resolume Avenue 3 & Quartz Composer from Resolume on Vimeo.

Download the patches here

I’ve been doing a lot of live drawing and other visuals that require X and Y inputs lately. VDMX has the wonderful feature that you can publish a structure input from your Quartz Composer path with ‘xy’ in front of the name. It will then show up as an interface element with x and y sliders and a 2d point picker. To make it even better, you can sync these to the mouse in a preview window, allowing you to draw inside the interface without having your mouse on the second output!

The downside is that the xy-input shows up as a structure in the 0…1 range, and QC needs different coordinates. So to save myself some time, I’ve made a macro that handles all the structure splitting and math interpolation. The whole thing is dynamic, and will give correct coordinates no matter what aspect ratio you’re working on, making it ideal for triplehead setups.

Download here and then place inside in ~yourhomefolder/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz Composer/Clips on Leopard or ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches on Snow Leopard.

Hope it’s useful to someone!

Now, half a year later a blog post surfaces, which has some hilariously funny pictures and story on a company using a demo version of GrandVJ at a gig. You can imagine my surprise when I looked closely at the pictures, and saw that lo and behold, my patches are used in the background!

It’s always heart warming to see your hard work on such a prominent display, being used by people that care about it.

Click here for the full story!

La Plus Belle from goto10 on Vimeo.

Audio reactive composition using Kineme GL tools and built in particle patch.

The amount of particles is influenced by the audio amplitude (obviously ). The bass frequencies influence the amplitude of the oscillation of the line, creating a rather nice parallax effect.

Even with the added RII and blurring, still runs at a steady 30fps at 1920×1080 on my NVIDIA 8600.

Audio: Previously unreleased track by Seth Matteucci.

Oh, and sorry for the Lady Gaga track. I couldn’t resist.

Quartz Composer tutorial 6: Dynamic Slideshow from goto10 on Vimeo.

Opening and closing music by PSAPP.

Inspired by COD:Modern Warfare 2 and Alx Toneburst.

Controls for duration, font size and font selection.

goto10_randomtext_vdmx.qtz.zip

As Hiltmeyer noted correctly in a comment elsewhere on this site, the spacing on the letters can be off a little bit. This has to do with the way QC breaks up the string into individual letters. I’m still looking into this, but in the meanwhile it works fine for ‘fixed-width’ fonts such as Courier, Andale Mono, Monaco and my personal tech favourite OCRA.

It uses a Core Image kernel originally written by Memo Akten to apply a luma key.

M8 Trace effect

Controls for trail length, luma key threshold and luma key softness.

goto10_m8trace.qtz.zip

Kinki Universe from goto10 on Vimeo.

Corporate job for Kinki Kappers, a hairdressing company from Amsterdam. It was one of those awful open briefs (“here’s a bunch of pictures, make something cool with it, you know, like with 3d and stuff”), and I spent a long time figuring out which direction to take it. In the end both the client and I were very pleased with the result.

I decided to upload it, because it marks my first steps into using Quartz Composer and realtime graphics code for corporate productions as well. Instead of just using After Effects, this also features some QC compositions (most notably Vade’s Rutt Etra plugin) all rendered using Kineme Quartz Crystal.

Music: ‘Pieces’ by Chase and Status