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Fluid - 2.6

Real-time liquid screensaver

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All Time:	(4.4)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.6
Release Date:	2004-01-21
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	4,524
Downloads (all versions):	96,630
Price:	Donationware

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Product Description:

Fluid is a realtime fluid-dynamics model and rendering engine that uses OpenGL to create the effect of flowing liquid on your screen.
Each launch of Fluid brings a completely new experience and never-before-seen images based on settings that you control. You can change colors, rendering styles, resolution, and many more options via the preferences sheet.
Fluid is donation-ware. If you continue to use it please pay for it, though we aren't going to force you. It takes time to program things like Fluid for OS X and the only way people are going to continue to do it is if they are supported.

What's new in this version:

Themes and ColorMaps menus bug in Panther fixed. Now you can get to items in submenus.
Bug in Background Effects (distort/warp) selection fixed. Now the selection sticks.
Adding video reflections. Now you can use your iSight or other video feed as the source for the reflection. This is way cool.
Pathline rendering returns to Fluid
Added flow controls to the liquid properties tab. This allows manual control of the x and y flow of the liquid.
Screencapture: You can now save the currently rendered frame by hitting the S key on your keyboard.
Small rendering speed improvements
New simulated-LIC (Line Integral Convolution) background effect.
Theme Server is no longer included in this download (to save bandwidth). It can be downloaded separately.
We've been waiting on our German and French translations to come from some friends. We gave up. So those localizations are not in this version but will be returning in a small point release as soon as we get the data. If you are interested, we're always looking for people who can translate Fluid into other languages.

For more detailed changelog see http://www.concepthouse.com/products/Fluid/onlineDocs/changeLog.html

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

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Questions or Bug reports - Version: 2.6, 1/21/2004 02:20PM PST

conceptDawg

If you have questions or bug reports, please send them to support@concepthouse.com. We don't always check back with this site so I can't be sure that we are helping you and/or fixing problems unless you talk to us directly.

Background not showing - Version: 2.6, 1/21/2004 02:05PM PST

Boondoggle

I'm not seeing the background image when the saver is deployed. I see it when useing the "test" button in the pref pane, but when I close out Sys prefs and start Fluid I just get the fluid effects over black.... Very dissapointing as the test shots are COOL.

bd

Not For Me, It Didn't - Version: 2.6, 1/21/2004 01:42PM PST

robopope

I installed this thing per directions on my G4 under OSX 10.2.3 and had a complete system lockup twice when I tried to select it in the Preferences Pane.
I mean a hard restart was required. It may work for you . . . I round-filed it.