This post is to help people get a bit more up to speed on why you're getting the
error
message. Basically that error is the result of the java client being unable to
receive enough
RAM to be able to perform the render at your current settings. In MacosX 10.5.3
Leopard,
you will only have 48 MB's of RAM available for a given render if you had
started apophysis
via doubleclicking it's icon on your hard drive or dock. The way to get around
the memory
error is to start up apophysis through the application called "Terminal"


Step one: Place the apophysis-j application in your applications folder.

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Step Two: Open your applications folder, find the utilities folder inside, open
the utilities
folder and doubleclick 'Terminal' within that folder.

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Step Three: In the window that opened up from terminal you should see something
similar
to the following text:

Last login: Tue Jun 24 15:19:56 on console
yourcomputername:~ name$

This text is normal. in that window you need to type the following then hit
return:

cd /applications

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Now you should see text along the lines of this:

yourcomputername:applications name$

After you see the above text, type the following into terminal and hit return.

java -Xmx300m -jar apophysis-j-25.jar

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*Note the number 300 next to "Xmx", That number is the amount of RAM that
apophysis
will use after typing that line of text.

If you followed all the steps you will see apophysis start up shortly after.

I am also working on some scripts to start up Terminal, load apophysis and
allocate the
desired amount of ram with a single doubleclick.

You can check on the project status updates at my DeviantArt Journal at:
http://irradiatingshadow.deviantart.com/journal/

Hope this helps.

-Isaac A.