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Applications & Plugins
The following applications all use or exploit Quartz Composer files. This is by no means an exhaustive list.

OS X
iWork
Final Cut Studio
coge
Photo Presenter
VDMX
AudioCodex
FXFactory
Q@mera
Eskatonia - VFX, CoreMelt, Inside Us All, Quartonian

Tutorials, Forums & Articles
Apple Developer Tutorials - 2005 Apple Developer Tutorials - 2008 Apple JS Coding Guide - 2009
Kineme Vimeo Tutorials   Kineme Wiki   Kineme Tutorials
QuartzCompositions - 2006
PixelArt
whitsitt - 2009
vjkungfu - 2009
goto10 Vimeo - 2009
qtzcodex - 2008
hybrid visuals - 2008
dvcreators.net - 2008
Digital Motion - 2007 Digital Motion - 2008
Mac apper - Part1 & Part 2- 2007
fdiv - Tiger only - 2007
O'Reilly Mac Dev Center - 2006
Steam Shift - 2006
Eskatonia Archive - 2006
createdigitalmusic - 2005
psonice - 2008
Open Frameworks forum
safe from the losing fight - a great programming blog, very well written and illustrated.
mac research - lots of Cocoa and OpenCL tutorials.


Examples
Futurismo Zugakousaku - totally brilliant compositions dating from Tiger through to Snow Leopard
gtoledo - lots of brilliant examples
Kineme Interactive Media- especially the Applications section, although the Forums also contains plenty of really good example files, including many that are purely experimental.
v002 - a growing bank of excellent 3rd Party plugins and examples from vade [VDMX]
t-linked - a growing collection of OpenCL, GLSL and Max examples from Pascal Letour
toneburst - machines don't care - lots of downloadable examples and plenty of raw CI, GLSL and JavaScript code specifically for Quartz Composer
memo.tv - examples drawn from the earliest to the very latest, also 3rd Party plugin work & more besides
tobyz - examples drawn from the earliest to the very latest, presentations, applications, digital signage & more
qtzlcodex - Machine Codex & the iTunes music visualizer protocol
Quartz Candy- a growing collection of examples from Tiger through to Snow Leopard
Mutant Quartz- a growing collection of Open CL examples and tips
psonice- tutorials, examples, also see psonice's vimeo page
dust- Tutorials, Examples and PlugIns
Irishman's Guide to Quartz Composer - Vimeo & YouTube tutorials & various VJ related resources
cybero - you are already here :-)
Quartzcompositions.com - one of the earliest site's dedicated to the collecting of compositions
Mark Harris - a blog by a member of the Modulate audio/visual collective
Rybotron - a motion graphics blog by Ryan Berkey
Create Digital Motion - plenty of articles and links about QC and other audio / visual work
subblue - a blog dedicated to generative visual programming
Kevin Quennesson's Site - a blog by one of the chief architects of Quartz Composer
whitsitt - a blog with some useful Quartz Composer examples & projects
bangnoise - examples and plugins


Mailing Lists
Apple's QC Dev List
OSDir - An Alternate & User Friendly Archiving of the QC Dev List
Kineme Info List

Custom Patches
Google Patches
Kineme Patches
Quartzcandy
Qtzlcodex
Paolomanna - LUA Scripting plugin and more
v002 - a growing bank of excellent 3rd Party plugins and examples from vade [VDMX]
bangnoise - examples and plugins

Books
Zugakousaku Quartz Composer Book

Images / Videos
Flikr
Vimeo & Cybero on Vimeo
YouTube & Cybero's YouTube Channel
Geek 3D - various QC / OpenCL videos

Wiki, Boards & Forums
QC Wiki QC2
QC Wiki QC3
Kineme Wiki
Wikipedia
Independent QC Wiki
Open Frameworks forum

Origins
pixelshox - where Quartz Composer came from :-)

External Links

Mozilla Dev ECMA specifications
W3.Org DOM Specification
W3Schools JavaScript Tutorial
Internet.com

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