Hello all, I´m a mac user and since I have heard there is a Rhino's mac version on the go I would like to know if there is any plan to develop Grasshopper for the mac os version of rhino. If this is possible or is planned to, any idea when it would be available? It would be fantastic. (Sorry about my English)
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I wouldn't say it's similar, but Quartz Composer on OSX is a visual programming environment for working with images, data and 3D primitives (OpenGL) and meshes. You create compositions which can be screen-savers, iTunes visualisers, CoreImageFilters (GPU optimised image processing) or GLSL shaders amongst other uses. Can process data a bit like Processing too but is patch based (with a Javascript Patch)
It's actually a OSX framework and used in many a OS X Application. Best of all it's free, just install Developer Tools from your OS X DVD. Snow Leopard has added support for meshes and OpenCL but they are works in progress. Kineme (kineme.net) have developed a set of 3D tools for Leopard and I think they are updating them to SL soon seeing as some of the stock Mesh patches leave a little be desired.
From an visual programming implementation perspective, it's interesting to compare GH and QC. So similar, so different.