How to Create Your Own Wallpapers with Oxidizer

Using Oxidizer now… I’m in pure envy and awe of your Mac Pro and its 8 cores! I’m using this on an iMac G5 and I can tell that my final render will take at least a couple of hours! Wish me luck anyways… still love your show.

A 37 second render on his Mac Pro with its 8 cores took my machine, an iMac G5 from 2003, about 7 hours to do a similar rendering job. The stuff Apple is coming out with nowadays is unbelievable!

Update: will take approximately 8 hours total time to render, from my calculations. It sucks having a G5 iMac for something like this. But I’m determined. Will post the link of the final image when I’m done. BTW, I did do a couple of animations (small scale) and it does an awesome job!

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What program did Chris use to view his 8-core status?
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you know what sucks,
i cant change my wall paper on my computer.
i wont let me.
i have no clue why.
:( bummed out about that.

hmm
***?

who uses a mac??!!

i use both,mac for editing pics n music,but PC for all the good stuff,games,n everything els,mac frukin sucks,PC is the best!

I’m sorry man, I know quite a bit about that stuff so you can send me a message if you want and I might be able to help you, because no one should have to suffer a stuck a background, well I can help if you have a PC.

Thanks! This helped me a lot! I tried to play around with oxidizer but I could never get the size correct. This video helped me a lot. Now if only I could figure out how to do a animation….

Thanks again!

I saw this on YouTube and I was going to download this…until you said the words “Compiled only for OS X”. Still a cool looking program. I’m surprized that it uses all cores. If this get’s compiled for XP, then i’ll try it :D

Thanks for the showcase of the program

I have used every daily wallpaper you have made so far haha. They are wickedly sweet. I wish I had a mac to make some, I wonder if there are any windows alternatives to cool fractal like wallpapers.

I did post a link here earlier to the render I made with Oxidizer. It was on this page just fine, and now it’s gone an hour later. What did I do wrong? Did I offend in some way or break a rule I don’t know about?

Hey Chris nice job with these walls! I run a desktop customization site. I would like to feature a couple of these in the future with your permission. check it out here: http://www.jackrebel.com

Keep up the good stuff man.

-jack rebel (rebstile)

this a very cool app thanks for sharing i made a couple wallpapers with the program today but it took a little a while but thanks so much for sharing this.

wow that is cool but too bad there isnt one for windows T_T
i think i would make a wallpaper too and maybe add some things in there…
but i really like the fact that it is a free program to use
btw it is for all macs right? so a mac notebook could also run this program correct?

dudee! what an awesome app. it took my 2 cores 60.81 seconds to render :P . love it

Chris, I must say, that is a neat program.

I mean, the ability it has to render some really neat looking wallpapers is nothing short of impressive. It’s a def have when I get a mac.

I have found a similar Open Source application for XP, called “Apophysis”. This is Really cool stuff! Keep up the wallpapers Chris. :)

yeah i think it is for all mac but i think that it better to be ran on intel computer because they are faster

Well this certainly makes me want a MAC now. Make some awesome wallpapers on OSSEX!

Hey Chris, cool program. Unfortunately, I am running Windows, so can’t use Oxidizer, but have downloaded many of your wallpaper creations for my desktop. Thanks.

-Sam

It looks like the same iStat Pro widget I use in Dashboard

I use something called a console for gaming. I use a Mac for everything else.

But, meh… to each their own. :D

Please tell me why Mac sucks, because Crysis runs awesomely on my octacore 3.2GHz Mac Pro with 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD and quad-SLI GeForce 8800 cards. at 1920×1080.

Because you could build a pc like that for alot cheaper than you payed, plus the mac is the os’ and you are using bootcamp. DUH.

lies cant quad sli 8800gts liar plz stop this mac vs pc bs and FYI if you want to configure the highest pc on apple pick a bigger hard drive.

4TB isn’t enough?

You can do Quad GPUs.
It has 8800s.

By the way, the quality of your spelling/grammar/punctuation is really low.

Okay. But will the OS benefit from all this hardware? No.

this is the same as Apophysis

haha well i already got my PC moded from top to bottom,i dont realy know what its like when crysis runs slow,mac,i dont like it when i play cnc,i have to download patches for it to run withought any problems,mac is more of a media tool,pc everything els from working to playin games.

ur right bout the mac vs pc,they got there pros n cons,but i juss grew up with pc!

I grew up with PC too, and I switched to Mac.
And in 5 minutes, I never wanted to go back to use Windows.

well yea ur computer is modded almost to max,of course its gona work well with octacore 3.2GHz Mac Pro with 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD and quad-SLI GeForce 8800 cards. at 1920×1080. ,no **** sherlock,of course it works well!

It’s not really ‘modded’ though, I configured it all through Apple.

My other iMac runs fine too, though. That was my first Mac.

agreed on every word said,
4TB is more than any mac will see.

thank you. I finally, after hours and hours of searching for help and playing with this, got a good flame saved. I can’t believe that your little video did what nobody, even the author, could do for me.

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really?!?! you can help mee?
do i have to buy or install soemthing?

If anyone on Linux is looking for something similar, you can get “xstarfish” [it's in the Ubuntu repositories]

It doesn’t have any control, it’s totally random, but it supports outputting files and it can produce some cool effects.

Hey just wanted to point out, Oxidizer is Mac only, but libflam3 [the technology behind it] isn’t.

I was desperate to get a program working on my Linux box (since my Mac is only 300mhz), and I found Apophysis. (www.apophysis.org/)

It’s pretty much the same basic concept, but it runs on Windows, and WINE for Linux junkies.

Then, of course, there is also just Chris’ blog Chris Pirillo, which has everything from coupons and contests to discussions on FriendFeed. What is your background picture? Always changes based on:http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/28/how-to-create-your-own-wallpapers-with-oxidizer/http://chris.pirillo.com/category/wallpapers Why did you chose that picture? Well, it’s what came up - and what caught my eye. You have both a personal and a work computer, which program do you use the most on your personal computer?

it is very useful