Tablet sandbox

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.
• 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.