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Gradient Designer

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**Gradient Designer** (GD)is an interactive gradient design and colour mapping application for geoscientific data on the MacOS platform.

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The application is programmed in the MacOS **Quartz Composer (QC)** [link][https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartz/quartz_composer] VPL, using a mixture of pre-defined QC processing nodes as well as custom routines programmed in Objective-C, Javascript, OpenCL and OpenGL.

It has been compiled into a stand-alone application using Kineme QuartzBuilder and Apple Xcode 10.1, targeting **MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) and MacOS 10.14 (Mojave).

As of _MacOS 10.14 OpenGL has been deprecated: future iterations of the software will require porting to Metal or platforms supporting OpenGL compatibility profiles.

**Limitations**

**QC**
GD and companion apps have been compiled into a stand-alone applications using Kineme QuartzBuilder and Apple Xcode 10.1, targeting **MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) and MacOS 10.14 (Mojave).

QC provides an intuitive OpenGL/Objective-C/Javascript/OpenCL/ etc. procedural programming environment, with a live 'lazy execution' model, enabling exploratory programming.
As of _MacOS 10.14 OpenGL has been deprecated: future iterations of the software will require porting to Metal or platforms supporting OpenGL compatibility profiles.



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