A Tool For Data Mining Layers Data mining tools often require users to understand arcane query syntax and to learn complex user interfaces in order to compose data mining queries. What’s needed is data mining that gives non-programmers the power to intuitively construct data mining queries through direct manipulation (just…

The Impunity Of Cool — Last month, I read “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats for the first time. I was naively moved by the poem and even wondered if literati were particularly haunted by its foreboding imagery the night before the Presidential election. Soon after the election, I took the time to discover…

A memory of one of my favorite teachers One of my favorite teachers was Hal Swafford. He was my high school AP US History teacher. Hal passed away several years ago, in October of 2013. My most vivid memory of Hal is that once he was lecturing about complicity, perhaps…

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From inspiration in 1992 to AppStore release in 2018 Over 25 years ago, I began my quest to build The Perfect Drawing App. In March this year, this long journey concluded with the launch of the iOS app Spriteville. I call Spriteville a “mobile canvas for dynamic art”. The app…

Spriteville lets you combine emoji with physics to create fun scenes. — Spriteville is a mobile app that lets you paint with physics to instantly create animated scenes where objects (aka “sprites”) move, collide, break up, fade, emit field forces, change speed, etc.. All brush effects can be customized with emoji as their “brush stamp” (the brush tip). Here’s how you can quickly make a Spriteville scene that rains basketballs…

Exploring The Depths Of Spatial Design Earlier this week I met an exciting spatial design tool vendor and had fun showing a few approaches to UX challenges in XR. …

How To Paint With Physics Inspired by the two-dimensional graphics objects of early games, every composition object in Spriteville— brush strokes, images, text, emoji — is a “sprite”. Sprites are alive. That means they have mass and charge and impart forces, collide, bounce, breakup, and react with other sprites using simulated physics. Spriteville provides a palette of 20 physics actions that can be applied to any sprite.

A Mobile Canvas For Dynamic Art Art is the ichor of culture. Art tells our stories, memorializes our past, portends our future, warns us when we go off course, and propels us forward. …