Bits On Wheels - Mac bittorrent client

"Bits On Wheels is a Mac-only Bittorrent client. It's freeware (but not open source or public domain).

The neat thing that sets it apart is the 3D swarm view. Bittorrent works by enabling participants to self-organize into a swarm: a group of machines group-hosting a particular file at a given time. When you connect to a Bittorrent tracker, your client can coordinate with others also connected to that tracker. Machines with the entire file are called seeders; they share pieces of the file with machines seeking the file. It's akin to book printing through coordinated xeroxing: I'll do the first ten pages, you do the next, then we trade. Easy.

The 3D swarm view shows yourself in the center. Hosts you are connected to lie around the periphery: although a Bittorrent swarm can be a complex graph, the swarm view is self-centered. Hosts around the edges may be connected to each other, but that is not shown. "

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I don't have a Mac, but since I'm in the computer animation industry, I know a bunch of peeps that do. I will pass this on to them to road test.

(swarm'd from eyebeam)
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