In Quartz Composer, an array of key-value pairs is called a structure. The Structure Tools plugin provides patches for fast structure manipulation. More info and download at kineme.net.

This patch will write an input string to a specified file when activated. Click the patch to go to the info/download page on kineme.net.

A set of 26 patches for procedural texture generation, using techniques derived from Perlin Noise.

Click the screenshot below to go to the info/download page on kineme.net.

This patch connects with a Nintendo Wii Remote for control and input. Currently only one Wii Remote is supported.

Uses the DarwiinRemote framework by Hiroaki Kimura.

Click the image to go to the info/download page on kineme.net.

This pair of patches converts between YUV triplets and Quartz Composer color values.

Click the image below for download and more info from kineme.net.

This plugin causes Quartz Composer to load plugins from ~/Library/Graphics/Plugins/, giving user-level control of Quartz Composer plugins. This was necessary for Tiger users to have User-local plugins (instead of system-wide ones). Leopard fixes this.

More info and download are available at kineme.net

This Official-API Patch PlugIn allows other Official-API plugins to have subpatches by unlocking Subpatch support for Official-API Quartz Composer Plugins. To use this in your Official-API plugins, simply add a +(BOOL)allowsSubpatches method that returns YES to allow subpatches in your patch.

More info and download at kineme.net.

These plugin allows the Video Input, built-in MIDI, and Audio Input patches to load in Safe Mode environments, where they would fail to load othewise. Downloads and more info on kineme.net:

• Safe Video
• Safe MIDI
• Safe Audio

This plugin causes the Quartz Composer Editor to align all of the patches to the grid drawn in the background of the editor window. Available for download on kineme.net.

Frustrated with the tedium of going through all the Xcode project files in a text editor and manually replacing all of the identifiers and filenames when creating a new Quartz Composer Patch, we created a new Xcode template for custom Quartz Composer patches.

To make a Quartz Composer Patch, now all you need to do is:

1. Create a new Xcode project with this template
2. Give the project a name
3. Build the project
4. Move the .plugin file into /Library/Graphics/Patches/ — The template does this for you now.
5. Launch Quartz Composer

And, of course, modify the code, if you want to do something other than nothing.

Illustrated documentation and downloadable versions can be found at kineme.net.