Live video effects programming

1 July 2005 · Originally published on wanderingabout.com

Experiment. learn new tools. the following are a series of experiments I did when I first started exploring an isight iMac with quartz composer, a node-based visual programming language for open-gl effects. all movies are around motion detection, and video interferences.

If you are a visual artist with a mac and an iSight camera, I recommend playing with quartz composer for a fun time. Below are the source files for the projects:

download quartz source files

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