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Open source · Mac · 2005 - 2015

Quartz Composer

Open-sourced plugins for Apple's node-based visual programming tool, connecting it to hardware, music software and the phone in your hand.

Quartz Composer open-sourced plugins: Leap Motion, Myo, Audio Engine, iTunes, Ableton, Serato, Philips Lights and AppleScript, wired as patches
RoleDesign & Build
Years2005 - 2015
Built onQuartz Composer
ReachHardware · Music · Games

Overview

Quartz Composer let you build interactive visuals by wiring patches together. These plugins extended what those patches could reach: Leap Motion, Myo, Audio Engine, iTunes, Ableton, Serato, Philips Hue and AppleScript.

Each one was released open source, and each became the starting point for a prototype.

Colour Art

A plugin that pulls a colour palette from an image. Fed the album art of the track playing in iTunes, it themed the interface around the music.

QC plugin Colour Art: an album cover beside the four colours extracted from it
Three phones, each tinted with the palette of the album art it shows
The same layout, themed by each cover.
An iTunes album view tinted with colours from its cover
An iTunes album view coloured from its artwork.
Colour Art extracting a palette from album artwork

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Philips Hue

A Quartz Composer patch for Philips Hue, so the room lighting could follow the same signals as the visuals on screen.

Philips, hue personal wireless lighting, Quartz Composer, and a lit bulb
Philips Hue integration for Quartz Composer

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Game Pack

A set of small games built in Quartz Composer and played on iPhone and iPad, with Leap Motion and Myo as alternative controllers.

A maze game on an iPad held in two hands
A character select grid on an iPhone
A Flappy Bird style game on an iPhone
Three iPhone screens from the Game Pack
Three more iPhone screens from the Game Pack

Games from the pack.

Leap Motion Cloth

A cloth simulation you push and pull with your hands over a Leap Motion Controller. The source is on GitHub.

A yellow cloth with a logo on it, deformed by a hand
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