10.6

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Release: QuartzBuilder, v1.5

Release Type: Production
Version: 1.5
Release Notes

Changes since QuartzBuilder 1.4

  • Added workaround to handle cases where a drawing context cannot be created using the default system colorspace (bug report)
  • Fixed issue where generated app would incorrectly load exposed parameters even when built with Save Input Parameters disabled (bug reported by @gtoledo3)
  • Added ability to bundle fonts (feature request)

Known Issues

  • To build an application that contains 32-bit-only plugins, you must run QuartzBuilder in 32-bit mode. See the QuartzBuilder documentation for details.

Release: Kineme3D, v1.6

Release Type: Production
Version: 1.6
Release Notes

Changes since Kineme3D 1.5

  • Added "Swap Axis" input to the Kineme3DObjectLoader patch (feature request)
  • Added "Close U" & "Close V" inputs to the Kineme3DParametricSurface patch (feature request)
  • Added "Draw Face Normals" input to the Kineme3DObjectRenderer and Kineme3DObjectStructureRenderer patch
  • Fixed crash when attempting to load geometry with large amounts of unused vertices
  • Added 9 new mesh inputs to the Kineme3DMeshBlender patch, for a total of 17 (commissioned by @franz)
  • Updated to FBXSDK 2012.2
  • Updated to Open Asset Import 2.0.863

Ashima Noise External Texture Warp (Composition by gtoledo3)

Author: gtoledo3
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Date: 2012.06.25
Compatibility: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
Categories:
Required plugins:
(none)

This is a GLSL shader that is a "texture warp/distortion" effect.

It uses the Ashima Noise implementation that's been kicking around lately, that I particularly like and think looks nice and organic.

I'd used it for generating patterns, but had the idea a month or so ago to use the noise to perturb in input texture - which didn't occur to me at first since the whole deal was that it's a "textureless" noise implementation, but I'm glad it did!

After I had that hanging around for awhile, I decided to add some simple "feedback" loop facilitated lighting, which has a kind of eerie look :-)

I've been able to generate really cool looking abstract landscape type looks by feeding textures that have those kind of colors going on, and macerating the texture to taste. I've also achieved some pretty gross "melting flesh"/"monster" looks as well. I've had some fun with this filter in the past while, and I hope you all do as well. :-)

Go through the "Mode" values to checkout the various basic looks, 4 Modes in all.

"Amount" will increase the amount of the rippling, while "noiseFreq" will tend to increase the density of rippling per area.

"Speed" controls the pace of distortion fluctuation.

"Bump" will do some stuff to the .z channel to mess with the lighting a bit in modes where it's active.

"Spot R1/R2" control the throw of the mouse active light.

"gammaOn/gamma" controls gamma (psonice's gamma code...if it works, why not use it?).

Then there's some color channel offset stuff.

Old Monitor (Composition by gtoledo3)

Author: gtoledo3
License: MIT
Date: 2012.06.24
Compatibility: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
Categories:
Required plugins:
(none)

This is a glsl shader image filter that gives a lo-fi old monitor look, tinged towards the purplish side of things.

Barrel Distortion (eg., fisheye) is built into the shader - zoom in and tweak the x/y offsets as needed to get rid of the texture repeating at edges, or create a mask and lay on top.

Linescreen (Composition by gtoledo3)

Author: gtoledo3
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Date: 2012.06.24
Compatibility: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
Categories:
Required plugins:
(none)

This is a glsl shader that takes texture input (vid, still image, etc.) and does some fun level dithering, and line screening.

The controls are as follows:

layers - controls amount of color steps.

mode: 0-BW, horizontal linescreen. 1-BW, vertical linescreen. 2-BW, grid linescreen. 3-Color, horizontal linescreen. 4-Color, vertical linescreen. 5-Color, grid linescreen.

line: density of linescreen.

red/green/blue: color levels when in one of the color modes.

vignette/vignette Radius: turn on vignette, and control radius.

gamma/gammaLevel: turn on gamma, control gamma level (gamma from an example by psonice).