Software Development

PB Mesh Warping Patch

Project timespan: March 2008 to April 2008

This patch warps an image (or movie) in an arbitrary way as specified by a user generated mesh stored as a text file. It was commissioned by Paul Bourke for the projection of images into immersive spaces using a projector and a spherical mirror. Paul's writeup about the patch and its applications is the most thorough and detailed. It is available for download from kineme.net.

Particle Tools

Project timespan: June 2008

This set of patches provides an object-oriented interface for building dynamic particle systems. Click the screenshots to see larger versions and/or view more screenshots, information, features, and videos of particle systems in action on kineme.net.

Kineme Core UI Extensions Pack

Project timespan: December 2007 to present

kineme core about panel

Currently on release 0.5, the KinemeCore Plugin enables several modifications to the Quartz Composer Editor UI, including private patch exposure, snap-to-grid, toolbar removal, fullscreen editors, fullscreen viewers on startup, non-floating patch creators, slim and non-existent scroll bars, transparent windows, and much much more. Everything you need to get started on QC-Development Bliss.

Click the screenshot below for more info and download on kineme.net

QuartzCrystal Composition Renderer

Project timespan: March 2008 to present

QuartzCrystal, a new Mac OS X tool for rendering Quartz Compositions to movie files, has just been released on our daughter site kineme.net and features support for all QC plugins and patches as well as spatial supersampling (antialiasing). QuartzCrystal is a Mac OS X application for rendering Quartz Compositions to QuickTime Movies. It supports 3rd Party plugins (Both Official and Unofficial API), as well as unsafe patches. It also supports up to 8x Spatial Supersampling (Antialiasing). This is not the same thing as OpenGL's "Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing" (FSAA) --- it's better. When you enable Spatial Supersampling, QuartzCrystal renders your composition at the specified multiple of your target size, and then applies a high-quality scaling filter to reduce the rendered image to the intended size. All parts of your composition get the same supersampling treatment --- not just lines and poly edges (or whatever your video card supports) as is the case with OpenGL FSAA.Read more

Feeds Wesabe parser

Project timespan: December 2009

Feeds Wesabe Parser enables the Feeds module to import data from the Wesabe API, thereby allowing easy automatic importing of transaction data from a multitude of financial institutions.Read more

Atrium Answers

Project timespan: January 2010

Atrium Answers is a question-and-answers feature for Open Atrium, with User Reputations.Read more

Views Table Highlighter

Project timespan: December 2009

Views Table Highlighter allows administrators to easily highlight certain Views Table rows based on simple PHP code accessible from the Views UI.Read more

Quartz Builder

Project timespan: May 2009 to present

QuartzBuilder allows you to easily create applications from your Quartz Composer creations, without having to muck about in Xcode.

Your compositions are encrypted, and plugins and simple resources are automatically bundled with the generated application.

Events and properties are exposed to the composition, allowing unprecedented control over the rendering environment — for example, the window can be made full-screen on launch.

Technical info and download available from kineme.net, as always.

QuartzBuilder screenshot

Performance Inspector

Project timespan: January 2009 to present

Misconfigured patches can eat up memory at an exponential rate, killing your compositions. Or the problem can lurk more subtly, making the compositions jumpy or just slow. Unlike the built-in profiling tools, Performance Inspector performs a patch-by-patch analysis of the performance of your compositions while they're running, providing you with detailed information on which patches, exactly, are slowing your composition down. Technical info and purchase info available from kineme.net, as always. Quartz Composer Kineme performance inspector screenshot shows patches

Kineme 3D

Project timespan: December 2008 to present

Kineme3D provides support for 3D models in Quartz Composer.

Not only can you render your models, you can also deform them in various ways. Twisting, Gravity, Scaling, Bend Boxes, and Quantization are a few ways these can take place. You can also blend between two models with the same number of vertices, creating smooth motion for keyframed animation.

To get the technical info or download a trial, visit kineme.net.