Done.
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Quartz Composer is a fantastic piece of software developed by Apple, a shining
example of what Objective-C and OS X are capable of doing.
I created a broadcast overlay for use during Space Shuttle launches that
generated the real-time countdown information for broadcasts like this one, the
launch of STS-133:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy1Nc4YpAUI
Those graphics automatically updated and reconfigured themselves based on data
provided by my iOS app MissionClock. In addition, it shows (very cool) ascent
parameters like thrust, altitude, speed, and acceleration. All of this was made
possible with Quartz Composer.
To this day, this overlay has the best-looking and most informative graphics of
any launch coverage.
If Apple won't continue maintaining Quartz Composer, perhaps the source base
could be donated to the community as an open-source project.
Thank you for your time!
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> On Dec 11, 2014, at 15:03 , Roger Bolton <ro...@eskatonia.net> wrote:
>
> I just sent the below to tc...@apple.com
>
> I urge everyone that earns a living in whole or in part from Quartz Composer
> to do the same. Politely explain how your company earns money with Quartz
> Composer and urge him to maintain the technology.
>
> If 30 or 50 of us do this, it will get noticed.
>
> Roger
> CoreMelt
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I run a small Software company that sells video plugins for Final Cut Pro X.
> We have been successful for seven years and are now expanding. We use
> Quartz Composer as a integral part of our software to create our plugins.
> Its a great technology and there is a whole community of people in the video
> / live visuals / museum and interactive video market that use this technology
> to earn money. Facebook also uses it for some of their backend I believe.
>
> You also use Quartz Composer in many of your own applications to create
> interactive graphics. Despite the success of this technology, for some
> reason Apple is not allocating any resources to keep Quartz Composer updated
> and add new features. Long standing bugs in Quartz Composer have been closed
> with the message "Engineering has determined there is no plans to address
> this issue". This is very worrying, and I hope its not a sign that you will
> remove Quartz Composer from future OS X releases.
>
> I am urging you to please assign just one engineer full time to fixing long
> standing bugs and keeping Quartz Composer updated. It may not be a glamorous
> user facing technology, but believe me there is a dedicated community using
> this tech and we all want it to stay around.
>
> Your sincerely,
>
> Roger Bolton
> Director, CoreMelt Pty Ltd
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