Rotater

Written by Craig Kloeden.

A Macintosh Program (68K/FPU/PPC/Mac OS 9/Mac OS X/Intel versions) for rotating user specified points and lines in 3D in real time with stereo options.

Has now moved to https://github.com/JanX2/Rotater

Here is a version compiled from the above sorce that seems to work on Catalina
Rotater-Catalina.zip

Versions Available

Rotater 5.3 (Probably Mac OS X 10.4 and above PPC/Intel - works with Snow Leopard)
Rotater 5.2 (Mac OS X 10.4 and above PPC/Intel)
Rotater 5.0b2 (Mac OS X 10.1 and above)
Rotater 3.5 (Mac OS 9 FAT 68K/PPC)
Rotater 3.0 (Mac OS 9 881 FPU)

Extended Versions

I have done some custom versions of Rotater for people and for fun that others may have a use for. These versions are incomplete to various degrees and are not supported. They are all Mac OS 9 programs.

Odd Versions:

Animated multiframe images that can be Rotated (279k)
4 dimensional model projection and rotation (147k)
Plots in 16 bit (thousands) of colors (170k)

Utilities

If you are looking for a quick and dirty DXF to Rotater Converter (19k) look no further (Mac OS 9 application).

Other Conversion and Generation Utilities sent in by people are available here too.

DOS/Windows Version

Marijke van Gans made a DOS version of Rotater some time ago. Details could be found at:

http://www.silicon-alley.com/cat/rotate.html but it appears to have disappeared.

Related Sites

Alexander Thomas has developed a HyperCard Stack for generating 3D Rotater files from mathematical functions.

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