What is Quartz Composer?
Quartz Composer is a new realtime graphics technology provided by Apple in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It allows “movie files” to be constructed that render 3d effects on the fly and has user interaction and scripting capabilities. These quartz composer compositions (qcc) can be played back just like normal quicktimes in any VJ mixing program or they can be embedded within an application. Think of it as a hardware accelerated 3D version of flash movies. It includes a graphical authoring environment similar to MAX/MSP or Visual Jockey. It’s also free and included with every copy of Tiger.
