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Gaston 1.2.2

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3D rendering of 4D quaternion Julia set fractals. Free

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Leo Fink

Gaston provides interactive, stereoscopic real-time 3D rendering of 4D quaternion Julia set fractals. Show off the awesome speed of your Mac with this totally useless toy! Any rendered image can be exported to make for a nice desktop background. Gaston can also be used as a benchmark for floating-point/AltiVec/SSE performance.

What's New

Version 1.2.2:

Compatible with Snow Leopard
Custom document icons
Performance measurement in GFLOPS

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Enrico-Nencini commented on 18 Jul 2007

Just what id says: totally useless, but very nice and fun. And free. It can produce nice desktop backrounds :)

[Version 1.2]

Hoby commented on 08 Mar 2007

We need more toys like this..

[Version 1.0.1b]

+44

aetnaria reviewed on 22 Aug 2006

Funky!

You start with a ball of clay. Then you twist it like taffy, play with the colors, lighting, viewpoint... just mess around with the sliders.

I'm not sure what this is useful for (thus the Value rating - it is free though!). But it certainly is different.

[Version 1.0.1b]

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Jan 2004

Does not work. Quits on launch. OS X 10.2.3
(Perhaps you are using Development build instead of Deployment build? Or you forgot a framework?)

[Version 1.0.1]

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Anonymous commented on 18 Jan 2004

I'd really like to solve this one. What is the exakt version number in the About Gaston window? Should be 1.0.1b (the original 1.0.1 crashed on G3s). What is your Mac model?
And, most important, could you launch the Console-App (in /Applications/Utilities/Console) and tell me the error log (if there is one) right after the error has occurred?
Thanks for your help.

Anonymous commented on 19 Jan 2004

you might check your version of stuffit expander. i believe the initial 8.0 version had problems with setting wrong permissions on expanded apps that would cause them to fail on launch. i think the latest version is 8.0.2/

Anonymous commented on 26 Apr 2005

I am having the same problem. I tried the console, but there was nothing. I can see movement in the dock, but no data in the console.

I am using 10.3.9 on a Dual G4/450 with 640 RAM.

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Jan 2004

This is totally cool! I'm not sure how useful it is but it's a blast to watch and play with. It's kinda like taffy only you don't have to wash your hands afterwards. Virtual Taffy!

[Version 1.0.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Jan 2004

It works now. There was a problem on non-AltiVec systems. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Version 1.0.1]

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Anonymous commented on 17 Jan 2004

thanks again... no problem, glad you fixed it so fast!

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Jan 2004

version 1.0.1 quits as it is launching, generates an error window.

iBook @ 900MHz / 640 MB RAM / OS X 10.2.3

[Version 1.0.1]

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Anonymous commented on 17 Jan 2004

Yes, I can reproduce the error on G3 systems. It works fine on G4s. I'm working on it.

Anonymous reviewed on 18 Aug 2003

Excellent little program. I have a wishlist too, of course: I'd love to be able to set the thing spinning on it's own like you used to be able to do with Apple's 3D Graphing Calculator. And I'd like a 'High Quality Render' button as well. And a snap-to-zero on the sliders would be great. :)

[Version 0.93]

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Aug 2003

This tool is fun for creating fascinating 3D rendering of abstract shapes. The improved interface feedback is welcome.

Don't set the background color to zero.

It's easy to want more from Gaston. It already seems to be able to use both CPUs of my DP800. But I want more speed. I want to save my paramters in names sets, and recall them from a simple pallate that shows me a thumbnail of what it looks like. I sound like a child, I want I want I want ...

Good job Leo - for supporting the Mac, for a wonderful gift, and you have my portrait!

- Johannes Rexx

[Version 0.93]