Last week I gave an introductory talk about Quartz Composer to the Seattle Xcoders group. If you are an OS X developer and haven’t spent any time yet looking into Quartz Composer yet, I encourage you to check out the technology and companion framework. Using its intuitive and interesting visual programming metaphor it is fairly simple to rapidly create some very sophisticated animations or graphics processing pipelines. Using these compositions in your own applications and development projects is a snap with the provided framework.

The talk materials are available here. There are a few sample compositions and an Xcode project that demonstrates how to use the Quartz Composer API, including the use of bindings to control the properties of compositions.