Category Archives: Graphics

A short (and round) history of the button

Early MacOS OK and Cancel buttons

The push button. It’s truly the blunt instrument of UI design. While most other controls provide some indication of the type of operation they’re performing – sliders are adjusting a value, a switch is moving between two states – buttons just mean “do something”. What? The only way to tell is to press it and [...]

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30 years ago at CES…

How different did things look at CES 30 years ago? Very.

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Creating a physics-based OpenGL iOS app

If you know a bit of OpenGL you can integrate the powerful Bullet physics API into your iPad or iPhone app.

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Kinect SDK with F#

My first quick look at using the Kinect SDK with F#.

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onedotzero – Sprites – doing it for the kids

This year the onedotzero film festival included for the first time a screening for families. Here’s what I thought of it.

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Sneaky peek: Physics on iOS

A quick look at the physics demo I’ve been writing using Bullet on iOS.

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Minilight renderer in F#

Porting the Minilight global illumination renderer to F#.

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Creating an iPad flip-clock with Core Animation

Using Core Animation to create flip-card number animations on the iPad and iPhone

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iPad – The rise of the naturalistic user interface

Apple’s iPad applications make use of real-world objects in their user interfaces: books, newspapers, address books. What is it about the iPad that makes it a good platform for this kind of UI?

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Highlights from onedotzero – wow+flutter

Some highlights from the onedotzero wow+flutter digital short film festival.

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