The Quartz Composer Music Visualizer Protocol was introduced by Apple in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It provides a mechanism by which an audio player can communicate with a composition. Using this mechanism a composition may react to various input parameters provided by the audio player, such as peak and spectrum data, as well as track information.

Mandelbrot is a plugin for Quartz Composer which can be used to generate fractal imagery and animations either for their own sake or as the basis for further processing.

MachineCodex Software is proud to announce the availability of our new Mandelbrot plugin for Quartz Composer. Read more to download the package installer. Or read a discussion about using the Mandelbrot patch.

Update 31st August 2008: MandelbrotQC 0.6a released. This version significantly improves rendering speed.

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A custom patch for Quartz Composer which generates an image of the Mandelbrot or Julia sets with parameters for zoom, x, y, colour and colouring algorithm, and more.

• Fully animatable
• Zooms in up to 1,000,000 x magnification
• 5 different colour algorithms
• Renders to an Image output port
• Customisable size
• Mandelbrot and Julia algorithms

Previously I wrote about Quartz Composer and the creation of LatheMachine, a visualizer module included in AudioCodex. In that case, I did what a lot of people do when learning Quartz Composer. I found a qtz file which was interesting or in some way relevant to my goal, opened it up and tweaked it to my liking.

The new String Theory.qtz visualizer in AudioCodex 1.11 requires the Kineme GL Tools Quartz Composer patches. Read more to download the package installer.