Decided to open up Quartz Composer the other day for the first time. Pretty sweet.

After a little playing around I came up with an extremely basic screen saver idea that floats three cubes around your screen, displaying the first 18 images from a given Flickr RSS feed. You can change the feed to whichever you’d like; the default is mine.

Included my patch macros, below. If you have any thoughts, please let me know– I’m extremely eager to get better at this.

Root Macro Patch

Controlling cube position

Timed Sampler Patch

Passing Flickr RSS to parsers which output images to cube sides

Flickr RSS Parser which downloads the thumbnail and passes to output