SolidWorks subsiduary Cosmic Blobs (US$45) is porting its namesake software to the Macintosh (from Windows, 'natch), to be available for purchase in June.
As a stepping stone, SolidWorks released Cosmic Blobs Dashboard Widget (free), which lets Mac users access blob materials and tutorials through the OS X Dashboard. The company is releasing it today to coincide with Apple making Tiger, the codename for its latest operating system update, available for purchase today. (Cosmic Blobs does not yet run on the Mac; the dashboard widget is like a preview.)
Cosmic Blobs, which can be thought of as digital modeling clay for children, lets kids ages 7 to 14 quickly design and animate 3D creations that are on par with today's leading computer-generated movies and cartoons.
I hope the softeware runs better on the Mac than it does on the computers in my office. As I noted when Cosmic Blobs first came out, it runs painfully slowly or crashes on three of my computers that I tested it on (CPU speeds ranging from 1.2GHz to 3.0Ghz, with a variety of graphics boards). To their credit, the folks at Cosmic Blobs tried to figure out the problem, but to no avail. Maybe it's the air here in Canada. Although SolidWorks would like Mac users to "prepay" today for software shipping in two months, I recommend first downloading the demo (available now for Windows only) to ensure it runs on your computer.
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