Category Archives: Other People’s Stuff
Stuff by other people [than cybero]
QC Framework Version 5.0 (236.7) – ♥ [Version 4.6 (148)]
Quartz Composer [Version 4.6 (148)] – Framework Version 5.0 (236.7) [♥] – it just works [the Movie Loader patch that is [which didn't work in prior versions of QC framework on Lion upon my particular build factor of an iMac]] … Continue reading
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Collada DAE format and Snow
A recent , very pretty use of Collada DAE files in a post upon Kineme by Dustin O’Connor worked very neatly upon Lion, yet was reported as failing upon Snow by various postees upon that forum.
I duly went about booting into Snow, as running a hack of version of Snow’s QC in Lion didn’t show the problem experienced, as that hack utilised the Lion framework and not Snow’s.
A boot time check was required.
Suffice to say that I found I could then thoroughly reproduce the problem and also came about a workaround [http://kineme.net/composition/dust/grassscene#comment-24052] …..
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Google Doodle – Eadward Muyrbridge’s 182nd birthday
A really nifty Google Doodle today that celebrates the 182nd birthday of Eadward Muybridge, the ground breaking photographer and image animator (Contains 1 attachments.)
Posted in Art, Other People's Stuff, Topical
Tagged Eadward Muybridge, Google Doodle
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Kdenlive
Kdenlive raises a question or two or three, such as — how long does it take for qt4 to build? Answer at present – I don’t know it says it’s still building – how droll •~ Current answer to how … Continue reading
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Tagged Kdenlive, Non Linear video editing
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Software Piracy takes to the skies …
Unbelievable – firstly – Pirate Bay announced a new way of downloading [ 'It's torrent Jim, but not as we know it' ] now digital piracy takes to the skies. [One can imagine the Raspberry Pi developers in Cambridge just … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Other People's Stuff, Software, Topical, X Bad [for Business]
Tagged Pirate Bay, Software Piracy
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Invalid Kernel Name – but why?
I am getting the following error when coding up an image processing kernel to handle video, the kernel name is video_kernel. The error I get, in CLBuilder, is “Invalid Kernel name” – it isn’t ‘Main‘ name problem. It isn’t a … Continue reading
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Tagged CLBuilder, cybero, Lion bugs, OpenCL
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Today I’m really appreciating – Kineme Core
Kineme Core – you saved my lazy assed coding – not for the first time neither. There I was chatting on my mobile to a friend of mine who was wending their way back from Shotton to Abergele [major league … Continue reading
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Tagged cybero, George Toledo, Glitches, OpenCL
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Vector Field QC Plugin – _1024
_1024_vectorfield-qcplugin gives more details upon their new beta QC plugin that does a pretty fine job of creating Vector Field images from an input image’s RGB data. Time methinks to try that out with some of the new updated Noise … Continue reading
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Tagged cybero, OpenCL, Quartz Composer, _1024
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A Pleasing Discovery Indeed – Pathfinder
Pathfinder – made by cocoatech is without a shadow of a doubt the most useful, impressive and recommendable item of software that I’ve lately come to sample. Faster than Finder OS X. More reliable than Finder OS X, Find Path … Continue reading
Posted in Other People's Stuff, Software, Utility
Tagged Cocoatech, Path Finder 5, Utility
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Skeleton
Just switched themes to skeleton, and am already finding that the change has had a beneficial influence upon my overall view of how I use WordPress. Am seriously considering changing over my entire site to this boilerplate. Enough of iframes … Continue reading
What a great little RSS Validation site
Wanting to sort out your own RSS and keep on getting no RSS updates except maybe in your Mail client? Try sending you feed URL to http://feedvalidator.org and read ‘em and learn. Very useful indeed.
A fresh start on a new hosting provider’s domain
Today, Just_A_QC_Blog begins afresh , with the entirety of cybero’s web presence , including this blog, hosted anew by site5. Having suffered the difficulties created by uk2.net’s dysfunctional systems – payment systems, support systems, cancellation systems, all have failed me … Continue reading
8 bit Colour Cycling
Makes a comeback with HTML 5. See here canvascycle
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gray-scott reaction-diffusion test
from the RSS for machinesdontcare http://machinesdontcare.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/gray-scoot-reaction-diffusion-test/ Some interesting CoreImage work that looks like it’s come to fruition from toneburst. Gray-Scott Reaction-Diffusion Test 1 from toneburst on Vimeo. Test of Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion pattern generator, implemented in a Core Image Filter kernel … Continue reading
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Onom – QC Mesh Import
Something I stumbled upon on Vimeo recently QC mesh import from onom on Vimeo. QuartzComposer + .dae music: overflow / Paradrags hz-records.com/?releases/?hz-005/?
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The BeatBox [by NEEKOE]
A beautifully simple graphical scheme compliments well the neatly syncopated animation – stumbled upon http://vimeo.com/25706972
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Quartz Crystal 2 arrives
Quartz Crystal 2 arrives. & well worth the upgrade [$5:00 discounted price when one upgrades from a registered copy of QC 1.0] A first offline render has been posted upon vimeo – part of a series of Iteration experiments. Hexagons … Continue reading
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Shadows Code – GLSL porting to QC
This is simply a porting of portions of the GLSL code wrapped up in a new beta draft of Soft Shadows plugin , posted about on kineme and to be found at github. This is an interesting GLSL based Skanky … Continue reading
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Big Furry Head
Big Furry Head – a Particle kernel generated video using the audio data structures derived from a linear presentation of Big Furry Head by Amon Tobin. Big Furry Head – Particulate Structures from cybero on Vimeo. Big Furry head – … Continue reading
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whatrace-hardware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzme-eYU8Qs&list=PLBD4C1EF8FBDCF42B&index=1&feature=plpp_video
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