| I
don't know how many Mac Users there are out there besides myself that have
found themselves very frustrated trying to join in on the "Apophysis, Fractal
Making Fun". I have just about pulled the rest of my hair out in
frustration. One mistake I had been making was to do a Google search
for "Making Fractals on Macs". All I kept running across were pretty crude
applications or ones that just did not work. After talking with X
and expressing my frustration, he suggested I look up "Apophysis on Macs"
and......... Wa La, I felt the slight hint of a grin creeping onto my face.
OK,
first off you MUST HAVE Java 1.4 or higher. The Java
version I have is 1.4.2 The Mac system I am running on is OS X 10.4.11
After
talking to X I found a site that has a download for a Fractal making program.
It is Apophysis-J2.5 for Mac. The link: http://herr-grinch.deviantart.com/art/Apophysis-J-2-5-for-Mac-86807995.
I downloaded it and suddenly the world was right again. I then started
running into a few hitches. One being, the program kept telling me
I did not have enough memory to render the Flame. Reasons unknown
to me, the Mac version will not give you the option to put in a Buffer
depth or bump up the memory, at least is is not letting me change it.
So you're basically stuck with the memory it gives you. Thus you
will not be able to make your fractals as sharp and clear as PCers are
able to. I also ran into a few problems trying to render it the size
I wanted. So, in my case I had to size it down until it said I had
enough memory. You will have to go a little lower than it tells you.
It might say you have enough memory, but when you try and render, it will
tell you it can not allocate more memory. Just keep reducing the
size until it will let you render.
I
looked around for solutions to my problems via the internet. I ran
across a newer version of the above mentioned. It is Apophysis-J2.56.jar
for Mac. Here is the link: http://www.box.net/shared/i2s8t710cw.
A lot of problems I was having seemed to go away. I can not really tell
you if you could just download this version first. When I downloaded
this version it really just updated the Apophysis-J2.5 I had originally
downloaded. I don't see any reason why you can not just download this version.
My
little note is for the Mac People out there having the same problems I
have been having getting started and maybe just maybe, someone can help
figure out some of these problems and maybe a solution......Then let me
know!!!! I am now having problems doing a render, it just does not
want to work. It does it in about 2.5 seconds and then my file is
blank. It was working for me last night???
Besides
the fact that I now have absolutely no idea of what I am doing, it seemed
to be working enough to make some cool art. But, I have found the
need to enroll in X's school of knowledge once again, Previously Flaking
and now for Fractals. Believe me I strongly suggest you do the same!!!!
I hope this helps someone. Not sure, but I can hope! Good Luck
and have fun!!!
Kevin |
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