Quartz Composer Programming Guide: Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide: “Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide

Note: This

document was previously titled Visual Computing With Quartz

Composer.

Quartz Composer is a development tool provided with Mac OS

X v10.4 for processing and rendering graphical data. You should

read this document if you are a developer who wants to:

  • Experiment

    with the latest Mac OS X graphics technologies

  • Get an orientation to the Quartz Composer development environment
  • Create compositions that process graphical content without

    writing a single line of code

  • Learn how to use a composition programmatically—from within

    a Cocoa application

  • Get tips for using Quartz Composer effectively