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Leopard Sample Code: Graphics & Imaging
Quartz technologies are at the heart of the Mac OS X graphics and windowing environment. Quartz 2D is a two-dimensional drawing API that leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and allows developers to to achieve many of the visual effects used in the Mac OS X user interface, including translucency and drop shadows. Quartz Composer is a development tool for processing and rendering graphical data. PDF Kit allows applications to display and manipulate PDF documents. Core Image and Core Video support, respectively, image processing and video image manipulation. Quartz also provides low-level system services such as window buffering and composition, event handling and dispatch, display management, and text rendering.

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BlitNoVBL (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to draw directly to the screen without syncing to the VBL of the monitor.
2003-01-14
BlitVBL (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to have Mac OS X try its best to sync to the VBL for you.
2003-01-14
CALayerEssentials (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the basics of setting up various Core Animation layers
2008-09-30
CarbonQuartzDrawingWPrinting (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates mixing QuickDraw and Quartz 2D drawing both on screen and during printing.
2003-01-14
CarbonSketch (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Core Graphics only example of a Sketch application implemented with HIToolbox. Shows 1x1-CGBitmapContext for hit-testing, printing.
2005-03-23
CGDrawPicture (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to use the QDPictDrawToCGContext API.
2003-01-14
CGGamma (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use CGDirectDisplay calls to manipulate display gamma tables.
2003-01-14
CIAnnotation (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Image annotation application using Core Image Filters. Demonstrates creation and usage of Image Units.
2005-08-01
CIColorTracking (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An Objective-C applicaton that implements a GPU-based technique to find the location of a uniquely colored object in a scene
2008-04-24
CITransitionSelectorSample2 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Showing all available Core Image transitions in a scrollable NSOpenGLView
2006-09-18
Cocoa CG aliasing demo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to draw both aliased and anti-aliased text and graphics using Quartz and Cocoa.
2003-07-17
Cocoa CG arc demo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to draw both aliased and anti-aliased arcs using Quartz and Cocoa.
2003-07-17
CocoaSlides (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An image browser written using AppKit's Core Animation-based compositing and animation functionality
2007-11-02
ColorBars (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate, select, capture, manipulate, draw to, and release displays using the CGDirectDisplay API.
2003-01-14
CoreImageGLTextureFBO (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Making OpenGL textures with Core Image
2008-07-30
CTMClip (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to manipulate the Quartz 2D Current Transform Matrix (CTM) for image drawing with clipping.
2003-01-14
CTMDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to manipulate the Quartz 2D Current Transform Matrix (CTM) for image drawing without clipping.
2003-01-14
GeekGameBoard (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Core Animation for the user interface of a board or card game.
2007-12-19
IKSlideshowDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
This small sample project shows how to use the ImageKit Slideshow to display images or PDFs.
2006-08-01
Image Difference (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a way to use Quartz's compositing capability to find the difference between two images.
2003-01-30
Image Kit with Core Data (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Using Image Kit's browser view with Core Data content.
2008-07-25
ImageApp (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates basic image handling using the ImageIO APIs in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
2008-01-24
JustDraw (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sample code being used in the WWDC 2005 Hands-On session 215 "Moving from QD to Quartz"
2005-06-01
MassiveImage (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use a CGDataProvider to save a very large image with Image IO
2007-09-27
Mode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate displays and list the available modes for each display.
2003-01-14
ModeWhacker (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate, select, capture, manipulate, and release displays using the CGDirectDisplay API.
2003-01-14
MouseTracking (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sample code used in the WWDC 2005 Hands-On session 215 "Moving from QD to Quartz"
2005-06-01
PinBallHighScores (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates use of Quartz Composer for displaying data within an application
2007-06-11
QCFundamentals (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates Coordinate, Interpolation, and Iterative systems in Quartz Composer with an amusing animation
2006-08-07
QCGalaxy (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates use of Particle Systems and Core Image Filters in Quartz Composer
2006-08-07
QTCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
2005-07-19
QTPixelBufferVCToCGImage (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties to output pixel buffers from a movie and draw them.
2006-07-07
QTtoCG (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to create a CGImageRef with the proper ColorSync profile from a QuickTime image on disk.
2003-01-14
Quartz 2D Shadings (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use CGShading and CGGradient objects to draw simple gradients.
2007-08-31
Quartz 2D Transformer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Quartz 2D to manipulate an image
2007-06-21
Quartz Composer Live DV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to export a Quartz Composer composition as a real-time DV stream on the FireWire port.
2005-06-01
Quartz Composer Matrix (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Quartz Composer to display a QuickTime movie as a series of frames in a 3D world.
2005-06-01
Quartz Composer Offline Rendering (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to render a Quartz Composer composition as a series of images using an OpenGL pBuffer.
2005-06-01
Quartz Composer QCTV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to build a fake TV system using Quartz Composer as the foundation motion graphics.
2005-07-06
Quartz Composer Texture (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use a Quartz Composer composition as an OpenGL texture.
2005-06-01
Quartz Composer WWDC 2005 Composition (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to build a parameterized motion graphics composition with Quartz Composer.
2005-06-01
Quartz Composer WWDC 2005 TextEdit (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrate how to modify TextEdit's about dialog to display a Quartz Composer composition.
2005-06-01
Quartz EB (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
WWDC 2001 Early Bird Quartz 2D tutorial of vector drawing and PDF import/export.
2003-01-14
Quartz2DBasics (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Carbon and Cocoa sample code demonstrating some basic usage of the Quartz 2D API
2006-09-11
QuartzCache (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates several caching techniques using CGBitmapContext, CGImageRef re-use, CGLayerRefs, CGImageSource.
2005-06-01
QuartzComposerSamplePatches (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A short list of new patches in Quartz Composer Mac OS X 10.5
2007-06-11
QuartzLines (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Drawing Lines using Quartz's CGPath & CGContextStrokeLineSegments functions.
2005-06-01
QuartzShapes (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Example Quartz functions that implement equivalents to the QuickDraw PaintArc, FrameArc, PaintOval, FrameOval, PaintRect, and FrameRect
2005-03-08
RGB ValueTransformers (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Supersedes the "RGB Image sample". Sample now uses bindings. Color separation now done in an NSValueTransformer subclass.
2003-11-18
Son of Grab (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use the new CGWindow to get window images from the Window Server.
2007-11-01
VideoHardwareInfo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Query VRAM, Quartz Extreme support, OpenGL extensions and renderer, GLSL version and support.
2007-05-14