Wow awesome! That looks like a really major project and I think the
results are fantastic.
Keep up the good work!
Troy
On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Adrian Ward wrote:
Hi list,
I hope nobody minds the blatant self promotion too much, but I
thought I'd drop a quick informal mail to the list to let people
know we're just completing a large scale installation of Quartz
Composer powered interactive software exhibits at the O2 in
Greenwich, London, UK. This is for a new permanent exhibition called
The British Music Experience which opens in a couple of weeks time
and for it we've installed 49 bespoke software pieces that are all
powered by Quartz Composer.
I'm very excited because normally this is the sort of job that would
have been done using Director or Flash on Windows PCs, but for BME
we convinced the client to let us use Mac Pros, and now 18 months
worth of work is finally coming to close. Woohoo! It's so refreshing
to see rack rooms where Macs outnumber PCs.
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Highlights include:
• 6 giant Timelines stretching from 1945 up to the present day, each
running at 2800x1050 resolution and controlled by a trackball,
featuring images, videos, text and custom animations about
significant musical events in British history.
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• 21 Showcases with famous artefacts, each with a touch-sensitive
fretboard that you swipe your hand over to highlight an object in
the case, causing a narrated video to play detailing the selected
item.
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• Where Its At: A giant, 3-user map of the UK with trackballs that
allow people to scroll around and find out specific musical facts
about geographical locations. There are over 3000 entries in the
database.
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• Hey DJ: A giant touch-screen which acts like a DJ's record box,
where the user flicks through the records, causing photos and videos
to pop out and playing key techno/dance music tracks from the 1970s
up to the present day
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• ...and a few more exhibits.
Anyway, hopefully other QC users will find this interesting, I'm
certainly very proud to be making 100% pure Mac solutions that use
Quartz Composer and it's great to be able to demonstrate QC's
capabilities. We developed a handful of custom plug-ins to handle
the more specific requirements (importing and filtering data files,
playing audio files, handling RS232 devices, etc) but mostly it's
all fairly straightforward QC patches. We used a lot of Composition
Loaders to split elements into separate files to aid development and
content management.
Apologies if this is off-topic or verboten for the list. BME doesn't
open until March so please don't re-publish the contents of this
email anywhere too public (mailman archives notwithstanding).
All the best,
Adrian Ward
Technical Director, Clay Interactive Ltd
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