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Hello,

I'm new to QC, trying to build a New Years Eve countdown clock, would appreciate any guidance, struggling a little with the QC logic...

The clock needs to countdown in mm:ss from 11pm, then just seconds in the final minute. At 00:00 I'd like to play a QT file.

I found this old forum archive... http://tinyurl.com/2vya4ed and have managed to get half way there, as attached.

Not quite sure how to trigger the QT patch at 00:00. I can't think how to stop the countdown part and play the QT, without the counter happening in the background? I was thinking I could use a condition something like if minutes = 0 AND seconds = 0 then play QT but this would return false when the counter restarts at 59:59.

Kenny.

Hello, Sorry for the following silly question. I'm trying to break apart an image, shattering it into small pieces using an input such as the mouse, then having it reform into the original image. I'm pretty lost, anyone able to offer me a pointer or where i should start looking? many thanks in advance!

Hey everyone! I would really appreciate any help!!!

I'm new to Quartz Composer and need to make a composition that I believe is quite simple- but I don't really know what I'm doing. I am trying to take realtime video from an external USB webcam (or my iSight, if that is easier) and put it on a delay of as long as possible. I think I read somewhere that 20 seconds will be about the maximum because it takes a lot of computing power or something. So really, all i need is to display the video input on a slight delay. if someone could take a screencapture or something of how to set this up that would be amazing.

I am running on a dual core MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.8

Oh.... and I have to figure this out by tomorrow morning.... :/ THANKS!

I am interested in making a smoke like particle system. I have searched kinda deep into some of the threads, and found some info. I read a great deal of george toledo sample thread. And got that I need lots of Interpolation and a particle system to do any thing remotely interesting. I think that is what I got, hard to tell. George you do a good job of keep your work yours. Which i can understand 100%.

But so my real question is do I need Kineme3D or QuartzCrystal to make smoke in Quartz Composer?

Am I thinking about this right? Small particles. Lots of them, I am guessing. Some gravity. A pretty short lifetime, or long lifetime? Do i need an image of some sort to make it look more real?

Help much appreciated

Hello all out there in Kineme World. I am some what new to Quartz but really liking it thus far. Been tooling around it for a couple months. In a masters program for Design and Digital Media and found my way to Quartz. A big apple fan and not that big of programer. Been hanging around Kineme more and more and decided now was the time to sign up.

Working on a project where I am trying to create visuals that respond to live audio. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate some nods in places to explore. I am a pro at making a cubes height or a spheres radius change due to volume peaks.