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India Ink 1.9.9.2 is an easy to use, high performance filter for Photoshop that gives you over a dozen exotic ways to convert color or greyscale images to unusual black-and-white halftones. Suitable for image stylization or black-and-white printers, most styles offer variable line weight, warping, gamma, and scaling.

Poly's'Gone 1.4 is an advanced program which satisfies you with the premier solution for advanced 3D polygon to 2D vector line art conversion, used for documentation and illustration purposes.

By using 3D CAD or modelling applications for architectural and mechanical engineering, it is still an issue to process, reduce and simplify the high degree of accuracy that is inherited from your 3D files, down to the requirements of technical illustration and documentation. Furthermore, the usage of pixel based images, exported from CAD programs, is usually not recommended for integration and processing with existing parts catalogues (IPCs). Most of the time, they are too colorful and have a fixed raster resolution that can lead to headaches and demand unnecessary costs when going to press.

Unraveling the difficult task of converting 3D CAD data to 2D vector illustration is where Poly's'Gone comes into play - simply export parts and assemblies from your favorite 3D program as OBJ (Wavefront / 3D Paint) or VRML-file format and convert with Poly's'Gone to a convenient 2D vector file right away. Of course, this conversion can be performed according to an existing layout or drawing style guide for your vector line images.

With Poly's'Gone you not only get a reliable hidden-line-removal, you will get an illustration with thick lines indicating object contour and thin lines representing visible object edges for your preferred parallel or perspective projection view!
This is a real bonus for recognizing and understanding any objects in 2D illustrations for all kind of publishings!

After finishing the 3D->2D conversion, you can export your 2D visible-lines vector-drawing as a CGM (ComputerGraphicsMetafile, ISO/IEC 8632) or SVG file from Poly's'Gone and continue either with further processing the CGM / SVG-file in a suitable illustration program or import it into an appropriate layout application.

In addition, you can even reduce the number of vector lines prior to export by applying the new Merge-function. This new feature reduces removes overlapping vector lines from your 2D rendering result!

The common, proven business accepted style of "Thick-Thin Drawing" for technical illustration and documentation is, if ever possible, hard to achieve with 3D applications. Most of the time, one has to fight with 3D program set-up to receive all material and contour lines and the proper perspective view matching an existing style guide.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

GenericMain 3.0.0 is regarded as a distinguished and easy to use tool that converts arguments given on the command line into messages sent to the program object. GenericMain has no real use of it's own; it is intended to be a developer's template for tools that might consider command line messaging a feature (e.g., for component testing).

Requirements: Mac OS X Public Beta

Magic Vines 1.0.1 is developed to be an interesting anf attractive game in which you will have a chance to travel around the world. Line up vines in groups of three or more to clear the board and embark on the next challenge. Once you complete the challenges of each locale, fly off to a new part of the world and face challenging puzzles. Take off on an exciting adventure without ever leaving your favorite chair!

line cross-pull transitions 3.0.0 provides you with a very convenient set of iMovie transitions (cross-fade, fade-in, fade-out) which is able to divide the picture into a number of lines, and pulls them in opposite directions, revealing the clip underneath. you specify the number of lines (and their thickness), and the direction (horizontal/vertical). the fade-in and fade-out fade from and to a user-defined color. Included transitions:

• Crossfade
• Fade in
• Fade out

1. Direction: This pop-up slider defines the direction of the pull: horizontal, or vertical
2. Thickness: This slider controls the thickness of the lines - and as a direct result, how many lines are used in the transition.
3. Color (fade-in, fade-out only): This controls the color to fade to or fade from.

Requirements:

• OS X or better (includes OS X 10.4 'Tiger'), PowerPC
• OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") required for some universal plug-ins.
• Unless otherwise denoted by the 'universal' logo, not compatible with Intel Macs -- for some reason, Apple disabled Rosetta Mode for iMovie. You can, however, enable Rosetta Mode for iMovie - not for the faint of heart, though.
• iMovie 3 or better (effects/filters), including iMovie HD 5 and 6
• iMovie 4 or better (transitions / titles), including iMovie HD 5 and 6 (iMovie 6 users: you must upgrade to iMovie 6.0.1 or later)
• Not compatible with iMovie 08, 09, or later

AlbertX 2.2.1 is regarded as an easy to use, high performance application that can launch Applescripts by sending it an email. You can use any email account to send Albert a command. Albert looks at the Subject line and first body line of each email for a special "Authorization code", and then launches any scripts listed in the body.

Archive Viewer 0.8.1 comes as an easy-to-use, simple app which can accept a dragged and dropped archive file of the types tar, gzip, zip or Unix compress, and show the archive's contents. The original archive remains unmodified, saving disk space. There is no need to use the command line.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X