Kineme | Quartz Composer Stuff

Kineme: Quartz Composer Stuff

kineme.net is a community surrounding the development of open source Quartz Composer custom patches, plugins, and other hacks.

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Welcome to Kineme.

By bbinkovitz at 2008-12-28 09:15

Kineme3D 1.0

Kineme3D provides support for 3D models in Quartz Composer.

Supported formats include FBX, OBJ, DXF, DAE, MD2, and 3DS.

Not only can you render your models, you can also deform them in various ways. Twisting, Gravity, Scaling, Bend Boxes, and Quantization are a few ways these can take place. You can also blend between two models with the same number of vertices, creating smooth motion for keyframed animation.

Kineme3D uses standard OpenGL VBO-assisted rendering. Inside QC, Kineme3D objects will obey Fog, Lighting, 3D Transformations, Trackballs, and even GLSL shaders.

See the Vimeo Kineme3D Collection for some examples.

Thanks to all the Alpha testers who helped iron things out these past few weeks! :)

$25.00

By cwright at 2008-12-28 09:12
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QuartzCrystal 1.3

QuartzCrystal is an application for rendering Quartz Compositions to QuickTime Movies and Image Sequences.

It supports 3^rd Party plugins --- both Official and Unofficial API --- as well as unsafe patches. It also supports up to 64x Spatial Supersampling (Antialiasing) and up to 1024x Temporal Supersampling (Motion Blur) per frame.

$16.00

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By smokris at 2008-11-20 15:24
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Art-Net Tools 1.1

Kineme Art-Net Tools provides two patches for interacting with Art-Net devices:

ArtDmx Sender --- Broadcasts a structure of DMX values to the specified IP Network, Sub-Net, and Universe.
ArtDmx Receiver --- Receives broadcast DMX values from the specified Sub-Net and Universe.

Download the 7-day trial below, or buy a license now.

See the ArtNetTools wiki topic for further information.

$12.00

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By smokris at 2008-11-20 15:24
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2009 - Forward and Back

Just as 2007 was a fun and exciting year for Kineme.net, 2008 also turned out to be busy and successful as well.

When we brought 2007 to a close, we had around 60 registered users. At the conclusion of 2008, we had about 10 times as many: 660. Stats-wise, we went from 1800 unique visitors per month to about 6700.

Bandwidth-wise, we went from about 500MB/month in January 2008 to about 8.5GB/month in December 2008 (17x as much).

We also started attending conferences (NAB, WWDC, EM2008), with more lined up for 2009. We've released some of our own commercial work, have done a lot of commercial work for others, and continue to developer more free tools and plugins as well.

We got to get our hands on Snow Leopard, and have started working with the future of QC -- It's amazing to see how far Apple has taken it from the days of Tiger, just over a year ago. Some bugs still remain, of course, but it would be dishonest to say that they've been standing still.

Thanks to all our visitors, members, Beta Testers, Alpha testers, and many others who have helped push the limits of QC. Let's look forward to another exciting year :)

By cwright at 2009-01-01 13:36

File Tools v0.2

Download version 0.2

This is an update of File Tools, a patch set for loading and saving data to files.

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Ali Demirel uses Kineme in series of Richie Hawtin's M–NUS events

This year, Richie Hawtin's label m–nus celebrates its 10th anniversary with a series of interactive performance events called CONTAKT. Ali Demirel, Hawtin's visualist, uses a combination of Quartz Composer and other software to produce the show's video and also to interact with the audience. Here he talks about his use of Kineme to do this.

A little background: the most unique feature of the CONTAKT events is a lighted cube (pictured left) which contains an RFID scanner. Users who register in advance on the CONTAKT website have RFID chipcards which they can hold up to the cube's reader to interact with it in various ways.

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