Quartz

Quartz is the graphics layer that sits on top of the Darwin core of Mac OS X, sometimes also referred to as Core Graphics. Quartz directly supports Aqua by displaying 2D computer graphics to create the user interface, including on-the-fly rendering and anti-aliasing with sub-pixel precision.Graphics & Imaging Overview, Apple Developer Connection. 2004-09-08. Archived 2004-09-17.
There are two components that make up Quartz:
* Quartz Compositor - A compositing windowing system that manages and composites off-screen window bitmaps to create the Mac OS X user interface.
* Quartz 2D - A graphics library which uses the PDF document format to draw two-dimensional text and graphics.NeXT: Apple’s Right Choice by Jonathan Ploudre, Low End Mac. 2001-05-07.
==References==
==External links==
* Quartz at Apple Computer (archived 2003-12-07)
** Graphics & Imaging: Quartz at Apple Developer Connection (archived 2004-09-19)
**Overview of Quartz 2D at Apple Documentation Archive (2017-03-21)
* Quartz at the Adobe Wiki
* Quartz (graphics layer) at Wikipedia
**Quartz 2D
**Quartz Compositor
===Articles===
* Mac OS X Update: Quartz & Aqua by John Siracusa at Ars Technica
* Why Apple didn't use X for the window system by Mike Paquette at Slashdot (2003-08-19)
Category:Mac OS X