Gaston for Mac1.2.2

Great! It's not just a fun, it shows fractals power!

Fun app. It'd be great if it was updated, it hasn't seen a new version in five years.

Yay! Great to see it's updated to work with Snow Leopard! Fun with math and very accessible to laypersons. Would like to see more options in the future.

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

We need more toys like this..

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.

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?)

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!

Neato! You can make cool animations by stepping through the values for ?. Example: http://www.pascal.com/misc/gaston-01.gif (This was made by exporting 16 images from Gaston and animating them with Adobe ImageReady.)

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

version 1.0.1 quits as it is launching, generates an error window. iBook @ 900MHz / 640 MB RAM / OS X 10.2.3

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. :)

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

This is just a wonderful little program. Whether fractal math is your thing, or you just like wierd looking fudge (like me :-), this is the plaything. I'm sure a math teacher can put it to good use in class somehow. I hope the author will in the future create a Julia and Mandelbrot generator with the same ease of use and beauty.

Works as advertised, a great little app with baffling real-time ray-tracing! A bit slow on my PowerBook G3 400, should be awesome on a G4