CTGradient is an interface to Core Graphic’s CGShading. It takes care of all the background work that you normally have to do when using CG(anything).
CTGradient has trivialized the drawing of gradients in Cocoa.
While CG is a heck of a powerful library… It always seems to take an elaborate amount of code (as well as time, if your not yet acquainted with it) to do some of the simplest little things.
