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Hopalong - 1.1.0

screensaver module, displays fractals

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Current Version:	1.1.0
Release Date:	2002-10-15
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	5,424
Downloads (all versions):	8,640

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Product Description:

Hopalong it's a fractal screensaver. It generates real plane fractals as described in the September 1986 issue of Scientific American. Original UNIX hopalong by Patrick J. Naughton.

What's new in this version:

Localization in French and Italian
version checking bug removed
some internal changes

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

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Sounds great but.... - Version: 1.1.0, 8/2/2006 04:17PM PST

sidetracked

...sadly seems to be broken in Tiger, as do a number of the earlier, non-GL screensavers. (At least on my iMac G5)

Uh-oh, the prefs… - Version: 1.0, 11/5/2001 05:57AM PST

Pecos

panel... I'll make it more clear. By now, this is a brief explanation: fractals are generated doing a cerain number of iteration. "Cycles" are the number of iteration. Fore each iteration a certain number of point is drawn ("points per cycle"). Number of colors is obvious. Alpha is the alpha channel value (transparency) of each point. The initial color is choosen varying the hue (HSB model) randomly and leaving the other two parameters to max, successive colors have increasing hue. "Type" sets the fractal type (11 different fractal types); if more than 1 is selected, the type is randomly choosen between the selected ones. Simple and intuitive, isn'it ? Next release it will be more user-friendly, maybe with help pop-ups ? Let me know what do you prefer/think.