CFDG and Quartz - Good times

TheRandomDude's picture

Well, thanks to the shell command script that is...

Collected in the zip below is a composition that integrates the computer generated goodness of CFDG images with the speedy delivery of Quartz.

CFDGSaver.zip

Follow the directions and it should work :D

Definitely not ready for mass consumption, but I'm thinking ahead. The CFDG I used is by Guigui on the CFDG boards, I take no credit for his fine work.

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toneburst's picture
This looks exciting

..but sadly doesn't seem to work for me. I get one animation (which seems to be built from pre-rendered frames), then just the seed letters on a white background. I didn't recompile the source, because I'm on an Intel machine, and your readme implied I shouldn't need to recompile.

Any clues?

In case it's relevant, my system is:

MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Radeon X1600 256MB 2GB RAM MacOS 10.5.4 QuickTime 7.5 QC 3.0 (63)

alx

Quartz Composer Blog: http://machinesdontcare.wordpress.com

Music Site: http://www.toneburst.net

TheRandomDude's picture
check to make sure the paths

check to make sure the paths are set up correctly, if you want you can manually change them by changing the published inputs in the root patch. Remember also to drop the ShellCommandPatch.plugin in your custom patches folder.

If everything goes well, the command performs the following at the end of the first set of images...

cd (Path to Images); rm *; //Flush old images (Path to CFDG Unix Exec) -v (Variation) -a (Frames) (Zoom) (Path to CFDG File) (Path to Images)temp.png (Width) (Height)

Make sure that the command works in unix using the cfdg exec. Tell me if you've made any progress.

toneburst's picture
Apologies

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to do any more tests on this lately- been caught up in other things, I'm afraid. I will have a look at it as soon as I get a chance.

Cheers

alx

Quartz Composer Blog: http://machinesdontcare.wordpress.com

Music Site: http://www.toneburst.net