Hack The AppleTV ScreenSaver
Posted in Apple, Downloadable by Dan at 12:04 am
Fresh off the AppleTV is the “FloatingPhotos” ScreenSaver. Obviously it doesn’t work on OSX in its current form. So, here is the raw Quartz Composer file that any enterprising hacker can take apart, poke, prod, and try to port to work on regular OSX machine.
Anybody up for the task?
9 Comments, Comment or Trackback
jcjohn
I love this site.
Mar 25th, 2007
Dan
And here is the AppleTV intro video, if you are interested.
Mar 25th, 2007
Ronald Poi
Hope someone comes with a way to convert it to a MacOS X screensaver…
Mar 25th, 2007
Mark
Anyone have a video of what it looks like in motion?
Mar 26th, 2007
Aaron Harnly
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…
Mar 27th, 2007
Sherwin
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
Mar 28th, 2007
rdas7
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/
Mar 30th, 2007
steve miller
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.
Jan 7th, 2008
Yogi
@steve miller i’d be happy to host the file for you. email me at yogi _dot_ patel _at_ gmail _dot_ com. thanks!
Aug 31st, 2008
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