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version 3.0a2
June 17, 2012
Copyright 2012 M. Scott Marcy
Original Starfish engine copyright 1999-2003 Mars Saxman
Accelerated Starfish engine copyright 2012 M. Scott Marcy

About Starfish
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StarfishX is a Mac OS X-native application which generates cool desktop patterns. It is based on Mars Saxman's Starfish pattern generation engine. The following are a few of the highlights of StarfishX:
- Mac OS X native cocoa application.
- Accelerated and multi-threaded to take full advantage of multi-core Intel Macs.
- Support for multiple monitors (you can generate a different pattern for each monitor connected to your computer).
- Support for TIFF, JPEG and PNG image formats.
- Option to generate patterns in the background without the main application being open.
- For advanced users: A command line generator for the ultimate in control and flexibility.

System Requirements
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- Any Intel Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.(See below for links to a Windows version.)
- About 1MB of hard disk space for the application, and upwards of 5MB of hard disk space for each full-screen TIFF image. (This is why there's an option to use JPEG images, and smaller patterns use significantly less disk space.)

Cost
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StarfishX is FREE!
StarfishX and it's source code are released under the GNU General Public License.

Samples
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You can see some sample patterns created by Starfish here, here, and here.

Download
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Other Operating Systems
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Starfish is also available for:

Credits
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First and foremost, 99.99% of the credit belongs to Mars Saxman, who wrote the original Starfish program and made it open source. Without him and his generosity, you and I wouldn't have StarfishX today!
In addition, I'd like to thank my beta testers for helping me to find and fix bugs before I release StarfishX publicly: Todd S., Dan W., John B., Bwass, Elbert W., Trevor M-L, and James G.
Thanks to Bwass for the French translation of StarfishX!

Contact Me
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Feel free to email me at with any questions or comments.
The background pattern for this page is:
Last updated June 16, 2012
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