Chapter 15. Secret Patches, Core Image Filters, and GLSL (Pushing the Boundaries)

Well, my young apprentice, the sun is setting on our adventure, but if you hold tight to the training you have received, there will be many more great quests in the future. There is so much to Quartz Composer (QC) that we could never write it all down, but we have certainly shown you enough so that you’ll be to able to learn the rest and create whatever you need in QC.

However, even QC has its limitations. There are times we need something that isn’t available from the premade tools in the Patch Library/Patch Creator. This chapter is about pushing the envelope—there are some extra private patches you can enable; you learn how to smuggle chunks of code into patches; ...

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