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introducing *spark stage, an app i’m making for my own needs that might be useful to others.
a year ago, i needed a basic projection mapping tool. something i could send video to via syphon, and it would map two projectors across a back wall and out to the sides a bit. i ended up renting the amazing qlab for a few days, but not finding something simpler or shareable surprised me.
fast forward to now, and that same barn is soon to need the same mapping. two things have happened since, though. first, vade has wrangled a spiritual successor to quartz composer into existence. it’s early days, but it holds the promise that made qc work for me. second, you can now talk to your computer about what you want, and the genie will wrangle the code with competence. it’s changing the calculus on what’s achievable with limited resources.
put these two things together, and that basic tool comes into view as something i can make on the side. so, i contributed a perspective quad node and test card node to fabric, and brought up a native macOS app that uses fabric as its rendering engine. it’s called *spark stage as i have aspirations for it beyond this, but this is where it starts.
