Comments on: Hack The AppleTV ScreenSaver

By: Yogi

Yogi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:25:35 +0000

@steve miller i’d be happy to host the file for you. email me at yogi _dot_ patel _at_ gmail _dot_ com. thanks!

By: steve miller

steve miller — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:36:17 +0000

sorry to resurrect a long dead thread, but i had recently had the inclination to recreate the apple tv floating photos screensaver in quartz composer (from scratch). here’s a youtube video i made of my progress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWxqjezC6sE

if anyone is interested in getting a hold of the quartz composer file to use / tinker with, i’m open to suggestions for where to host it.

By: rdas7

rdas7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:28:42 +0000

I’ve been tinkering with the file you linked, which essentially presented 3 objects (Near, Middle, Far) that rotated periodically. I’ve patched them into the slideshow composition, so they display a fading-sequence of images, then tiled them into a 3×3x3 cube. It’s a cool effect, although there are three main issues:

• the range of motion does not match the screen dimensions (so you see the objects die/regenerate), and layering is manual (so it’s not perfect).

• all the objects are the same – presumably Core Animation is going to make this easier to deal with. Although I didn’t use the Particle Generator, it has a limitation that all generated objects will be identical. If someone can figure out how to iteratively generate objects, then we can get closer to the desired effect.

• loading images is very rudimentary & somewhat buggy (source folder is published so can be set in Screensaver Options and is recursive – it will find images in sub folders)

If anyone has further experience with Quartz Composer and knows how to take this further, I would really love to hear from you. In the meantime, enjoy the work in progress:

http://ze.ro-one.com/rdas7/portfolio/

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:54:46 +0000

There has been some substantial work done by other users on the screensaver at this site. http://www.digg.com/apple/Apple_TV_Intro_Movie_720p. I don’t have any composer skills, but maybe you can help the community find out how to make it work on our macs

By: Aaron Harnly

Aaron Harnly — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:48:15 +0000

Yeah, it looks like it expected to receive a structure with actual images as members. Changing the front, middle, and beck renderers so that they accept a structure with image URLs as members instead lets it accept image folders or RSS feeds.

It would be helpful to see what the original looks like to make sure I’m on the right track…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:30:47 +0000

Anyone have a video of what it looks like in motion?

By: Ronald Poi

Ronald Poi — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:51:26 +0000

Hope someone comes with a way to convert it to a MacOS X screensaver…

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:27:11 +0000

And here is the AppleTV intro video, if you are interested.

By: jcjohn

jcjohn — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:15:33 +0000

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