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Apple Documentation. Quartz Composer is a development tool for processing and rendering graphical data. Its visual programming environment lets you develop graphic processing modules, called compositions, without writing a single line of code. Quartz Composer is also a framework that lets you programmatically access, manage, and manipulate compositions created with the development tool.

This document, however, is a guide to the Quartz Composer development tool supplied in OS X v10.5. By reading this guide, you’ll get an introduction to using the Quartz Composer editor and find out how to use it to create a composition. You should read this document if you are a developer or visual designer who wants to: Get an orientation to the Quartz Composer development tool supplied in OS X v10.5Create compositions that process graphical contentExperiment with the latest OS X graphics technologies The information in this document pertains to OS X v10.5.

Organization of This Document This document is organized as follows: Quartz Composer. Kineme | Quartz Composer Stuff. TUTORIAL: Iterators In Quartz Composer - Part 3. Previous Tutorials: Following the previous two tutorials, we now have an ordered grid of square sprites in our viewer. After making our squares all look the same, we will now add some variation to them. First of all, we add color. In order to define a list of colors to choose from, we introduce the Multiplexer Patch. This is a very useful patch that simply presents a list of items ordered by index. The list can be as long as we want, and begins at 0. In our case, we need a list of colors. In order to select the colors we want, we need to change the settings for the patch. When we do this, we see that the number of inputs is set to 2, and the input type is se to “Virtual”.

We close the settings panel and we can now see our multiplexer sports 5 inputs. Next we select the color inputs and choose a different color for each. Now our sprites are colored, but what we really want is to assign a different color to each square. The math patch presents two inputs, and the values are being added. QC Designers - Forum Main. Installation Studio | Groups | IDEA9102 | Forum | Quartz Composer resources. Watch?v=k7TPnF9BZzQ.