quadrium is an application allows you to create a wide variety of abstract images, textures, and animations. It combines a wide variety of mathematic techniques (including fractals) with an interface designed to let you easily explore the vast realm of possible images, allowing you to literally "grow" you image. You don't need an advanced degree in math to be able to create rich and fascinating images, suitable for websites, presentation backgrounds, cards, CD covers, brochures, or fine art prints. You can even create animations, bringing your creations to life.
Features:
- Compose your images by combining over 230 different nodes
- Mutate your image to explore countless variations
- "Breed" your images together to combine their features creating a new images.
- Fine tune your images by explicitly adjusting their various settings, or use the "tweener" to adjust large numbers of settings all at once
- Animate your creations, generating QuickTime movies
- Render high resolution versions of your creations (up to 600 dpi with 4:1 anti-aliasing)
- Share your images locally via Bonjour, or globally via your .Mac account
- Create image workflows by post-processing your images with AppleScript or Automator (such as automatically adding to an iPhoto gallery, for example).
- Extensive documentation, including a 30+ page tutorial (over 150 pages of PDF documentation), and online help.
- Interface driven via "drag & drop", with unlimited undo and live feedback.
- Accelerated to take advantage of AltiVec and SSE (accelerating images such as fractals by up to a factor of 4)
