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In Apple's macOS operating system, Quartz is the Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz includes both a 2D renderer in Core Graphics and the composition engine that sends instructions to the graphics card. Because of this vertical nature, Quartz is often synonymous with Core Graphics.[1]
In a general sense, Quartz or Quartz technologies can refer to almost every part of the macOS graphics model from the rendering layer down to the compositor including Core Image and Core Video.[2] Other Apple graphics technologies that use the "Quartz" prefix include these:
- Quartz Extreme
- QuartzGL (originally Quartz 2D Extreme)
- QuartzCore
- Quartz Display Services
- Quartz Event Services
- ^ "Apple - Developer - Graphics & Imaging Overview". Archived from the original on November 20, 2004. Retrieved February 12, 2007.
- ^ "Apple - Developer - Graphics & Imaging Reference". Archived from the original on December 5, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2007.