Tag: Animation

Quicksilver Smoke

I wrote this a while back as part of the Quicksilver Internal Commands tutorial. The plugin hooks onto the current Quicksilver interface so you can watch it go up in flames.

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Cocoa Animation Effects

I wrote this app about 8 months ago, and it’s managed to find itself on Youtube.

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Secret Quicksilver animation effects

You may have had a shot at creating a Quicksilver interface. (If you haven’t, see the tutorial). While it’s good fun to play with changing the colors and positions of the controls, there is a whole lot of really clever code in Quicksilver that lets you go beyond that and play with some weird and wacky effects on any window.

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Warp, bend, squeeze and transform windows with CGSSetWindowWarp

How would you like to have the power to squish, warp and transform windows to your liking? With the private Core Graphics function CGSSetWindowWarp, you can!

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Unleashing the Mac OS X Genie

How to use the genie effect in Cocoa with undocumented Core Graphics functions.

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eBook: Xcode animations - Core Graphics

eBook 1

Play with fire.

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