I’ve just updated v002 Optical Flow to 2.0 for 10.6/Quartz Composer 4.0 compatibility. No new features, but it retains backwards compatibility with 10.5, Intel and PPC systems for Quartz Composer 3.0 as well.

Im very pleased to release the second version of the v002 Rutt Etra emulator for Quartz Composer. The new version sports some very nice new features that take advantage of the fact emulation is done using OpenGL, opening up some new aesthetic possibilities. 2.0 introduces new rendering modes (not just scan lines any more), much improved work flow and setup, support for Lighting, GLSL and Render in Image macro patches, bug fixes and performance improvements.

Included with the 2.0 are example Quartz Composer Compositions that demonstrate the gamut of new possibilities and walk users through the basics to advanced per pixel lighting, geometry displacement and texturing using GLSL, as well a VDMX qcFX.

2.0 is compatible with both Quartz Composer 4.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 (64 and 32 bit) as well as Quartz Composer 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.5, Intel and PPC.

I’ve just finished a new release of the v002 Blurs which fix some bugs, bring even more performance and importantly fix compatibility issues behind the scenes for Quartz Composer 4.0 which just shipped with Mac OS X 10.6.

Check out the blurs page to read about the updates and download 2.0. Stay tuned for more Quartz Composer 4.0 / 10.6 compatibility releases as I get to them.

The Glitch plugins have been consolidated to a single plugin with multiple patches, and I have added a few new patches, Glitch File Reader – interpret any file as a movie and ‘play’ through it, Core Video GL Glitch – play through pools of pbuffers on your video card to visualize random GPU memory, FBO Glitch – play through pools of frame buffer objects on your video card, and specify the texture format for interpreting background GPU memory. These are all fun source plugins that generate bit-glitch and interesting patterns. Here is a fun example of it being used as a screen saver for your Mac:

v002 Optical Flow is also released, which is a port of Andrew Bensons GLSL based optical flow implementation for Jitter, which includes his distort based on optical flow values. I’ve also added a patch to the plugin set that allows for some bluring/smearing based on flow. Here is a nice example of using the Optical Flow on Particle Systems:

Ive uploaded v002 Blurs 1.2, now packaged as a single easy to install plugin (no need to install 3 different plugins now).

Changes include much improved OpenGL resource usage ‘behind the scenes’ which speeds things up even more, fixes for proper handling of alpha channels within the blurs, and greatly improved algorithms for the Zoom and Motion blur. These two are much more usable now, and produce much nicer results than previous versions.

If you currently use the older blurs (1.1 or 1.0), you can remove all 3 v002 blur plugins and install the new ‘Blurs’ plugin. This will make sure you have the latest and greatest and do not accidentally use the older plugins.

Ive updated the blurs to 1.1, and have removed some dithering / artifact-ing going on due to some implementation details of the FBO texture target type I was using.

Ive also bundled updated QC patches for VDMX effects for both the blurs, and the screen capture plugin, which should work with the new VDMX 7.0 public beta.

Here is a pretty good indication of what to expect quality wise with the Blurs 1.1. No speed differences that I have noticed.

Before:

After: