Mac OS X Quantum Simulations 66
Jeremy Lee writes "There are some 'educational' apps that transcend the merely interesting, and expand you mind with the force of a crowbar in the cerebellum. Celestia is one. Atom in a box is another. I keep it handy on my new iBook to blow the minds of chemist friends. It only runs on PowerPC Macs, but it's almost a justification for getting one. It should be used in schools to teach chemistry." Celestia is also great (and available for other platforms) ... I couldn't download it from the main link on the page, but was able to get it from SF.net. But if you really want to amaze your friends, turn your Mac into a Desktop Cray.
Re:Celestia (Score:4, Informative)
Caution warranted? (Score:4, Informative)
did you....R E A D M E (Score:3, Informative)
"This is a preliminary version of Celestia 1.2.5 for MacOS X. Use it at your own risk!"
So far, neither has acted foul for me. Knock on wood. I think the 1gb RAM I've got onboard helps
Re:ohhh Sneakers! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Mind-bending visual bug (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Desktop Cray? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Celestia on Debian? (Score:2, Informative)
Btw, this is all assuming that you are using sid, and probably a third-party KDE.
HTH.
breve (Score:5, Informative)
I'd have to say that breve:
http://www.spiderland.org/breve/ [spiderland.org]
is one of the coolest scientific apps out for OS X right now. It takes some time to wrap your head around it, but with a little work, you can be writing your own 3D OpenGL simulations...!
~jeff
Re:So which is it? (Score:4, Informative)
untrue. the windows version does not contain as many object as far as I can tell - try looking for the Mars Odyssey for example - it's not there in windows, but it it in osx.
well their CEO is called Romeus Y. Arcy (Score:5, Informative)
incedentally there is a real Cray YMP in the Science Museum in London bearing a plaque with a quote from Seymore Cray claiming that when he heard that Apple had bought a Cray to help design the new Mac he replied that was funny, cos he was using a Mac to design the next Cray.