Texturisr - Quartz Composer Prototype
Cat.: computing principles for artists18. May 2006
A prototype Quartz Composer patch displaying an image returned from flickr with the search “bed-bunny”. Displayed in quartz composer. You can download the patch below. Please read the following posts for additional information and the PHP source code. More info is available in the source code comments:
link: basic wireless telematics sms and the web
link: texturisr project code
A php script handles writing an rss feed to the server with an arbitrary number of search results from flickr (using the excellent library phpflickr). The php script also crudely refreshes itself every x seconds polling for changes to a database. More details within the code comments. The code was designed to work from an SMS message texted to a phone paired with a mac. There is a ’simulated’ mode allowing text searches to be entered in a form on a web page.
The QC patch uses the rss feed to download images directly from flickr. Currently, I address a file running locally on my server. You. The QC composition uses a macro patch called “RSS feed updater”, forcing Quartz Composer to check for a refreshed rss feed independently of settings used by Safari - this is crucial for make the composition refresh more frequently than 30 minutes.
