almost there

For those of you who don't know, Quartz is the graphical subsystem of Mac OS X. It is made up of two parts; Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor. In a nutshell, it's the primary core of what makes up everything visual that you see on a Mac. Now, what's really cool about it, is that many programs and end users can take of advantage of the fact that quartz modules, or patches as they're called, are built into the os that you can build upon, kind of like lego blocks. Through an install of the mac os x developer tools, you'll find yourself what is known as Quartz Composer [QC]. QC is a nodal based visual programming language that takes full advantage of the subsystem, Quartz. Now the kicker of QC is that it can do way more than the visual. As I soon found in the beginnings was that you can build Quartz projects, compositions, that respond to user input. That input can come from almost anything; audio inputs, video inputs, keyboard inputs, infrared inputs, the apple remote, video game controllers, guitar hero guitars, and MIDI among many other things. Over time, I've built some fun and useless modules and a friend of mine has built some really cool live-interactive compositions for use in the theatrical realm. Stay tuned as I begin posting my findings and trails into the world of Quartz. I'm posting all of this in hopes of finding others out there able to help make new advances in the field. For now, I leave you with an Apple Quartz tutorial and some good old Wikipedia entry.

so it's been quite some time since i've last posted anything on here. it's time to get cooking again. i've got plenty of things i want to write about and share among lots of other ideas i've got going. hopefully i'll start to get them out there before too long. stay tuned and ignore most of everything that's been posted up until now. it's olllld.