Franklin X - Plot Electric Fields and Equipotentials in 3D on a Mac
A Universal version for both Intel and Apple Silicon
Franklin X 1.4(5) of was uploaded on Jan 22, 2021.
Intel version for MacOS 10.13+
Version 1.4(4) was uploaded on May 9, 2020
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Franklin X
See below for an earlier version of Franklin that should work on older Macs. It was last compiled in 2012 as a 64 bit application.
Franklin X is a Macintosh application for plotting electric field lines and equipotential surfaces around point charges. It has been updated from earlier versions written some years ago. It is now programmed in Swift and uses Metal instead of OpenGL for 3D graphics. Franklin X is intended as freeware for science education.
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Download link > Franklin 1.8.1
This is an older version of Franklin which should work on older versions of Mac OS.