Tablet sandbox
From Makers Local 256
Overview
An application that renders particles of sand that interact with the tablet stylus. Essentially just a neat desktop toy for specific use with touch screen technology, but not limited to it.
Status
Pipe dream
Requirements
- Needs to have two modes.
- Cursor interactive mode.
- This keeps people who aren't blessed with a tablet happy.
- Touch interactive mode.
- No stylus so as to not take away from the atmosphere of actually playing with sand.
- Cursor interactive mode.
- Should be full screen.
- No window border or buttons to distract the user from just having fun and relaxing.
Possible Uses
- Japanese rock garden to help relax you on stressful days.
- A unique way of taking notes.
Possible Features
- Networking to allow multiple users to play in the same sand box/rock garden.
- Multiple partical types each with unique real world properties.
Updates
- Found an application called pocketSand for my pda that's a port of the falling sand applet found on the web. The original project page for pocketSand can be found here.
- Only reason why this was important was because it let me play with particles using a touchscreen.