An Introduction to Apple's Quartz Composer

1. Introduction to QC
Kazuhiro Kosaka
Engineer, MDH, CyberAgent, Inc.
May 25, 2017

2. About Me
• ⼩坂和弘 - Kazuhiro Kosaka
• 2009- CyberAgent, Inc.
• Pigg (Server)/Browser Games (Front)/Native Games
(Front+Server)/Core-tech/MDH (Server)

3. About Me
• I love hiking

4. About Me
• I love camping

5. QC

6. Quality Control

7. Quality Control

8. Quartz Composer

9. Summary
Whatʼs Quartz Composer?
Quartz Composer is a node-based visual
programming language provided as part of the
Xcode development environment in macOS for
processing and rendering graphical data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer

10. Summary
What is it like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTiI9Zye_o

11. Summary
How to install it?
https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

12. Summary
How to install it?

13. Summary
How to install it?

14. Demo

15. Appendix
• Syphon
• Video Streaming I/O over TCP
• Plugins are provided for various apps
• QC/MadMapper/Modul8/Unity

16. Conclusion
• For What?
• Data Visualization?
• Network features are really poor..
• You might need to write your own JSON parser..
• Shrinking community..

17. Conclusion
• For What?
• Data Visualization?
• Network features are really poor..
• You might need to write your own JSON parser..
• Shrinking community..
• Unity..
• Amazon Lumberyard (Windows)..

18. END
THANK YOU