At home: MacOS X. Mozilla 1.1b. Looking forward to Poser 5 for MacOS X.

At work: Sun UltraSparc. It does not run Poser :-(

Here are a few links for free or cheap Macintosh 3D software.

Meshwork is a polygonal modeller aimed at small poly count models for games. It is a $30 shareware program.
http://codenautics.com/meshwork/index.html

Renderboy is a combined modeller and renderer. It is a $39 shareware program.
http://www.render-boy.com/

Celtic Assistant is a specialized program for generating Celtic-style knots. It can export a DXF of the final model. Celtic Assistant is free.
http://www.gigagraphica.com/ca/cainfo.html

Design Workshop Lite is a free version of Design Workshop, a modeller aimed at architectural illustration.
http://www.artifice.com/free/dw_lite.html

Patchdance is a 3D modeller using spline based patches. It is shareware, costing $25 for a basic version, or $75 for a more full featured option.
http://www.patchdance.com/

I second the recommendation above for POV-Ray. Though difficult to use, it produces fantastic output and is completely free. POV-Ray got me started in 3D.
http://www.povray.org/

I believe Pixels 3D 3.7 is released as freeware (the current commercial version of Pixels3D is 4.0).
http://www.pixels.net/home/index.html

I have one (an older version than the one being sold now, but similar). This ended up being a very long post, and I'm sorry about that. However as you might infer, I really like the monitor. It is based on a Mitsubishi Diamondtron tube, which is a great flat screen CRT. It has a USB hub with two external ports for USB peripherals plus a connection inside the monitor for calibration (more on that later). It has two VGA inputs and two upstream USB inputs. You can connect both the video and USB from two computers to the monitor, and switch between them. So the peripherals you attach to the monitor's hub will be visible to whichever computer you are using. Several dozen common screen resolutions are adjusted and burned at the factory. With other large screen monitors I own, whenever I switch to a different resolution I have to tweak the controls to get the screen square and properly level. I never seem to get it exactly right: its usually not square at the corners, which is distracting. The LaCie samples the incoming video signal, compares it to its factory settings, and adjusts itself. The image is always true and square, without me having to do anything. What the salesman probably meant by "revolutionary" is the color calibration. Most monitors can be calibrated by affixing a colorometer to the screen and letting the software create an ICC profile. This is done on the host machine, by reducing the available color space. That is, in the darker portions of the color spectrum, the software "rounds up" the R, G, B values to a higher value to get the proper output from the monitor. So you get less than 8 bits worth of Red, Green, and Blue, because the software has to compensate for the monitor. This may or may not be noticeable, though in severe cases it can cause banding in the dark portions of an image. The LaCie monitors have hardware calibration. You attach a colorometer to the screen, but instead of doing the correction on the host the correction is sent to the monitor via USB. The monitor controller adjusts the voltage driving the electron guns to properly calibrate the output. Your computer continues to use the full 24 bit color space, no reduction at all. I'm not certain this is revolutionary, though it is unsual. Other monitors do this as well, for example all of Apple's ColorSync monitors adjust the voltage to the guns based on the age of the monitor to compensate for the dimming effect as a CRT gets older (even the iMac does this). LaCie's colorometer is $500, not cheap. I was able to borrow one from a friend to do initial calibration, and hope to borrow it again every year to recalibrate. There are a couple other nice touches as well. The monitor is a dark blue color, which I find is less distracting than a beige case around the screen. It comes with a hood to reduce screen glare. I've actually started making hoods out of cardboard for my other monitors based on the positive experience with this one. Pricing on the LaCie is as a high end consumer monitor, or a low end professional model. There are certainly large screen monitors of good quality available for less money. For example, I'm rather fond of the Hitachi line. For the graphics machine, though, its a LaCie.

Very cool, I'll go get it now. I hope there will be an OS X compatible version later.

Oooh, I wanna know the Mac news! I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat.

OS X 10.1 all the time now.

I'm in exactly the same boat: using XL6 on a Mac. Well, I needed to get XL7 anyway, this gives me an incentive to do it.

It really is a shame that people steal your work, and I sympathize. I'm sure you go through the rationalization process, "most of the people who download the warez wouldn't have paid for it regardless so it isn't really money out of my pocket" etc. Still, in the end it feels like you've been robbed, in broad daylight, by a rabid pack of spoiled children.

Cool, I look forward to getting UVmapper Pro for the Mac.

Welcome back, LW!

Yup, I bought Dragon factory a long time ago, and it has been wonderful. Its useful even if you're not using it to make Dragons: its collection of wings, and heads, and tails, and other parts can be used for a wide variety of scaly critters.

There is a sculpture by Rodan called the Gates of Hell, which is a similar concept. There are numerous small human figures embedded in the stone, in poses committing various sins. You might take a look at it for reference, it might provide inspiration.

I'm Spartacus. I'd rather not be crucified, though.

Awesome! Thank you very much.