Rotater

A macOS application for rotating user specified 3D points and lines in real time with stereo viewing options.

Versions are available for all Mac platforms dating back to Mac OS 9 on 68K.

Current Version

A completely rewritten version in SwiftUI using metal (pretty and fast)

Download Rotater 6.2.0
Requires a Mac running macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later (M series or Intel processor)
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Download Rotater 6.2.0 source code for Xcode

Example Image

There is an iOS version but it has not been put on the App store yet

Download Rotater iOS 1.0 Catalyst version that runs on Macs to see what it looks like
Download Rotater iOS 1.0 Source Code for Xcode (need to be a developer to compile it)

Rotater Files

Collections

Selection of cool Rotater Files (1 MB)
My full collection of Rotater Files (15 MB)

Historical Versions

68K/FPU/PPC/Mac OS 9/Mac OS X/Intel versions

Rotater 5.3c (Works with Catalina and above including M1)
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)

On recent versions of macOS you may need to right click on the Rotater App and select "Open" to run it for the first time. You may need to do this twice.

Source code of 5.3 is on github at https://github.com/JanX2/Rotater

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 (PPC):

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. This is what the site looked like.

There seems to be a copy at: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ddgarcia/ research/graphics/Rotater/

Here is a local copy of the rotate.zip file from there.

Craig Kloeden

8 December 2024