Nice!

Get Keynote.

Kineme has a Quartz Composer profiler that can help you track down that memory leak:
http://kineme.net/product/PerformanceInspector
It’s probably in that plugin code that I hacked together. Let me know if that’s the problem.

What if the image rotated the opposite way?

Impressive work!

It’s really responisive. There seems to be almost no delay between the time you rotate the mirror and the time the image rotates. I think this helps to make it more compelling.

I think your project might benefit from having even more geometries warping the image and making it look more like an actual kaleidoscope

This is really awesome. I’d love to play with different modes that you’ve talked about, since it’s a really interesting interface.