The API and Theme is…
The API and Theme this time around is:
Core Image + Space
Deadline: 5pm Central Time Sunday October 29. We’ll post to ironcoder.org some deatils on uploading your submissions.
Mac OS X 10.4.X - sorry no Leopard this time.
Space can be office, desk, disk, trading, hyper, outer, inner, or whatever kind of space you can think of.
You can pick up the sample program, Unicorn Space, uses a unicorn picture for ” ” in a string, moving a bump distortion over the image randomly. Really silly and pointless.
Be sure to check out the samples incldued with Xcode 2.3 - They live in the Quartz directory of /Developer/Examples. The Fun House sample is useful for figuring out what the parameters to specific CI filters actually do.
Some useful links:
- Developing with Core Image
- Introduction to Core Image Programming Guide
- Core Image Filter Reference
- Core Image Reference Collection
Using Quartz Composer is OK, but you must have at least one Objective-C source file with at least one CI-prefixed call. This is a coder’s competition, after all. The prohibition against running in someone else’s address space is lifted, so if you wanted to write some kind of QC plugin, go ahead.