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Introduction
iKaleid is a simulation of a kaleidoscope to run on Mac OS X as
screen saver. It tries to be as realistic as possible and will produce
an endless array of patterns and colours. OpenGL is used for the
rendering.
iKaleid will run on Mac OS X 10.4 or higher on an Intel based Macintosh.
Latest News (Most recent first)
| 6th October, 2009 |
Bad news:
My laptop got stolen and I lost the source for many of the more recent improvements to iKaleid.
Good news:
I'll be reimplementing those changes and some new features in time for Christmas:
- Viscous oils plugin
- Shimmering neon lights plugin
- 64-bit SnowLeopard support
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| 26th December, 2008 |
Released Version 2.0 of iKaleid:
- Updated to work on Intel Macintosh
- Added high quality anti-aliasing
- Added new "Viscous Oils" pattern generator. Uses custom GPU fragment shading pipeline.
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| 16th August, 2005 |
At last, after far too long, I have this ready and packaged. Please download, and enjoy! |
| 11th November, 2003 |
I've just put up this page about my kaleidoscope software. I actually wrote it about a month ago, but I'm now putting on the finishing touches to it, such as preferences, like ability to change the configuration of the mirrors, etc. It can run as a screensaver, or as a normal windowed application. |
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I decided to release iKaleid as free software.
I want as many people as possible to share in how enjoyable it is
to watch.
Please share iKaleid with your friends.
No guarantees are provided with this software at all. iKaleid is copyright James A. McCombe.
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Screenshots
These do it no justice - you really need to see it move.
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New "Viscous Oils" pattern generator |
| New "Viscous Oils" pattern generator |
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Three mirrors in equilateral triangle, zoomed in |
| Same as above, the patterns have changed |
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Three mirrors in equilateral triangle, zoomed out. Due to the slight misalignment
of the mirrors in a kaleidoscope, you can see the pattern deviates slightly the more
reflections it goes through. Also, the intensity falls off as the light looses energy.
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| Same as above, the patterns have changed |
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Two mirror kaleidoscope, with mirrors at 15 degree angle. |
| Two mirror kaleidoscope, with mirrors at 30 degree angle. |
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Same as above, the patterns have changed |
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