10.6

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Release: QuartzBuilder, v1.2

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Release Type: Production
Version: 1.2
Release Notes

QuartzBuilder 1.2 adds User-interactive Composition Parameters, more minor performance improvements, improved security, improved resource location, and improved Snow Leopard compatibility (including gesture support).

quaternion trackball (Composition by dust)

Author: dust
License: (unknown)
Date: 2009.10.10
Compatibility: 10.6
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Required plugins:
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so i put together some vector math functions, people might find useful. i have made them into macros. i also made an example. in this example im taking x,y point data from the mouse patch and using some euler and quaternion functions to make a trackball with the xyz rotations exposed. i like the trackball but there are no parameters exposed so i thought if i built a trackball with the rotations exposed it might prove useful for people.

cvtools - point - flow clear points (Composition by gtoledo3)

Author: gtoledo3
License: (unknown)
Date: 2009.10.09
Compatibility: 10.5, 10.6
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Required plugins:
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This is an example of a way to clear points easily using CVTools. This is one of Kineme's CVTools examples with an added point clear function.

Hold delete and right click (eg., "one finger click") to clear points.

Please note licensing for clear function, cough cough. This is a MUST. :)

*Also, many thanks to Kris Harris for his useful alternative clear points setup, posted when discussing OpenCV some time ago. He inspired me to find a different way to achieve the same function, so that I could ultimately induce people into buying me coffee in a subversive way, through my use of an idiosyncratic licensing agreement. Thanks, Kris. *

Release: CVTools, v0.2

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Release Type: Production
Version: 0.2
Release Notes
  • Added 64bit build, supporting QC4 on Snow Leopard.
  • Cleaned up patch names and descriptions.
  • Fixed occasional crash when working with images not reduced to grayscale.
  • Fixed issues with lazy evaluation of some patches.
  • Removed a few broken patches (SubPix Adjuster, CV Camera, Image Splitter).
  • Some performance improvements.
  • Added sample compositions.

Please note that the plugin is now called CVTools.plugin (not OpenCV.plugin as in the previous beta release). Be sure to delete the old OpenCV.plugin.

Quartz Composer OpenCL Snow Leopard Tips: Heightfield with CL Kernel - VideoImage Extrusion Example Composition (Composition by

Author: gtoledo3
License: (unknown)
Date: 2009.09.30
Compatibility: 10.6
Categories:
Required plugins:
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This video is a run down of some tips about some new examples files available at the Apple Developer Center website.

Then, I take a text extrusion example, and show how to reconfigure it to use the OpenCL kernel setup to process video in a way that is similar to the Rutt Etra, or Kineme3D Heightfield, but which seems to work especially well with shadows (notwithstanding any other shadow limitations).

I also talk about and show the Apple 2d fluid example, "2D Smoke", and the composition "Pages Jiggle" in action.