I just posted the latest version of FractalWorks, a high performance fractal renderer for Macintosh.

Previous links were bad. Sorry about that.

You will find a large collection of sample images generated with FractalWorks, along with a link to the download page, by clicking here.

FractalWorks requires OS 10.4 or later, and works best on multiple processor machines, especially G5 and Intel based Macs.

I have a good sized gallery of images which you can view by clicking here.



Duncan C

Too bad it wont run on OS9...

I never upgraded.

Make it backwards-compatible, and I'd love to give it a try!

I have a Power Mac G4 with dual (500 MHz?) Processors if that helps.

But it does not get much use these days...

I don't know...

I am of the belief that No computer is ever outdated.

They may lose the ability to run modern programs, but all will always be good for their original purposes.

I used a Tandy 1,000 as my only computer for over 20 years, and only upgraded this century. It got me through college (recently).  I still use the Daisy Wheel Printer it came with.  Made my Lab Reports look like I actually typed them!

I still use my Apple II-C and I even break out the TI-90 every once in a while for nostalgia.  That uses a cassette tape for storing data, and a normal television for a monitor!!  But it plays a good game of chess.

I made my first computer graphics on that and recorded right to a VCR - it took computers over 30 years to return to that feature!  Most still don't do that.

So I'll keep all my old stuff, and upgrade when I can afford it.  A new mac is just too expensive.  And I was told by the mac folks that it would be silly to just upgrade the operating system in my old one.

But...  OS9 is NOT that old!  For it to be left behind so completely just because something better came along strikes me as wrong.  Possibly a shadow of that elitism that windows users accuse mac folks of possessing.

Now...  where's my flint and stone?  Gotta go light the stove and cook breakfast!

Nothing dubious in those comments!

I happen to Like old technology. The assertion that it is all still fine for it's original purposes is 100% True. I really do use all that stuff still.

Newer stuff being available does nothing to make older stuff useless.  It just can't do what today's stuffs can.

I was kidding about the flint and stone, but I still use a rotary telephone, and do not own a touch-tone model.  Or a cell phone.  And I get by just fine.

Technology is just too expensive to keep up with!

Guess who just traded some old comic books for a new mac book?

I'll give you a hint...

He just downloaded FractalWorks 0.5.4!

Now... where are those other mac fractal generators?

I know there are a few hiding around here...

agreed, i think quadrium | flame is the most advanced fractal rendering system available (so far ) and it's mac-only software.

clearly i need to take mac users into account in developing my next-gen rendering system!

Thanks, though I'd have to qualify that as quadrium | flame being the most advanced "attractor" style rendering system (i.e., IFS flame fractals, strange attractors, other applications of the "chaos game").  With, of course, quadrium | prime being the most advanced "escape" style render (and quadrium2 covering the more generic "procedural art" category).

i was with you until that point have you seen david makin's ultrafractal formulae?