Change the entire landscape of your room or office to looking clean, or mars, the moon, a forest, underwater, or any location real or fantasy. Keep video conferences interesting. Create virtual sets like those on TV news and weather reports. Its fun but also has many practical uses in the same way movie special effects have practical uses. ChatFX combines the infinite possibilities in Quartz Composer to produce video effects within iChat*.
Quartz Composer
ChatFX marries Quartz Composer and iChat. Quartz Composer* (provided by Apple to developers in Mac OS 10.4) is an easy, powerful and remarkable programming environment for processing and rendering graphical data. Quartz* is the engine behind ChatFX.
Because of this you can use Quartz Composer to create your own effects or change the set of effects that comes with ChatFX. This allows you to do almost anything with the video in iChat* and there is much more to come...
* Mac, OS X, QuickTime, Quartz, Quartz Composer and iChat are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
