Apple has hired Christopher Wright of Kineme Interactive Media, the creator of a variety of Quartz Composer applications and plugins and a consultant for Quartz Composer development, AppleInsider ...

It includes support for vector-based graphics, layers, variables and factories, and depends on Leopard technologies like Core Animation and Quartz Graphics in order to generate images.

Patterned after the original Mac drawing applications, Intaglio uses Mac OS X technology like Quartz 2D graphics, Apple Type Services, AppleScript, ColorSync, and the QuickTime image layer.