Offshoots is a fun little visual app that grows trees on your Mac. It comes in screensaver and app form–the app runs as your Desktop background. Essentially one vector “branch” appears on screen, and a bunch of offshoots from it appear (as well as leaves), making it a full tree. You can even set Offshoots to grow toward your mouse, and set all of its colors, sizes, and alpha levels yourself.
Rating: 4.5/5. A little slow at times, but still very cool.
Developer site:
Projects.DigitalWaters.net/Index..php?Q=Offshoots
cupcakekyrie on December 17th, 2008 at says:
Nice app. I really, REALLY, love your website, and have been following it for awhile but haven’t thought of leaving a comment until now for some reason. I see you haven’t updated in awhile but hey, it’s the holidays, we all deserve a break. The falling snow is a cute touch though