bomomo flash drawing/physics app
June 4, 2008 1:34 PM Subscribe
bomomo is a fun little drawing tool that creates some pretty interesting brush patterns using a variety of physics and mouse behavior. You can even save your finest works (Firefox and Safari only though) [via mefi projects]
this is really cool. thx!
posted by saulgoodman at 1:50 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by saulgoodman at 1:50 PM on June 4, 2008
Its not flash though (as the tags might suggest) - thats what makes it so cool.
posted by missmagenta at 1:53 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by missmagenta at 1:53 PM on June 4, 2008
That is strange and cool. (Kinda looks like a "how to become a dad" film strip though.)
posted by R. Mutt at 1:58 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by R. Mutt at 1:58 PM on June 4, 2008
wish there was an 'undo' feature. i just ruined my masterpiece.
posted by rooftop secrets at 2:19 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by rooftop secrets at 2:19 PM on June 4, 2008
It's like a screensaver, except more manual.
Actually, the first few tools seem to be quite effective for drawing things that look a lot like subway maps.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:19 PM on June 4, 2008
Actually, the first few tools seem to be quite effective for drawing things that look a lot like subway maps.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:19 PM on June 4, 2008
Cool. Thanks, Matt.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:20 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:20 PM on June 4, 2008
oops, I removed the flash tag. What the heck is Canvas?
posted by mathowie at 2:22 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by mathowie at 2:22 PM on June 4, 2008
Is everyone using this on Safari? It's unusably slow on Firefox for me. (Or is that just my crappy ancient computer?)
posted by enn at 2:37 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by enn at 2:37 PM on June 4, 2008
Is everyone using this on Safari? It's unusably slow on Firefox for me. (Or is that just my crappy ancient computer?)
I'm using it in FF (win xp) and its running exceptionally smoothly - I would have thought so much scripting would kill my little laptop but its seemlessly smooth. How much ram do you have?
posted by missmagenta at 3:19 PM on June 4, 2008
I'm using it in FF (win xp) and its running exceptionally smoothly - I would have thought so much scripting would kill my little laptop but its seemlessly smooth. How much ram do you have?
posted by missmagenta at 3:19 PM on June 4, 2008
1GB of RAM on a P4 2.4GHz. Looking at the comments on the creator's blog, it seems like maybe this is a Firefox on Linux thing?
posted by enn at 3:25 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by enn at 3:25 PM on June 4, 2008
oops, I removed the flash tag. What the heck is Canvas?
Canvas
posted by missmagenta at 3:26 PM on June 4, 2008
Canvas
posted by missmagenta at 3:26 PM on June 4, 2008
1GB of RAM on a P4 2.4GHz. Looking at the comments on the creator's blog, it seems like maybe this is a Firefox on Linux thing?
I'm on a celeron 1.73Ghz with 1Gb RAM and it works fine. Must be a Linux thing.
posted by missmagenta at 3:31 PM on June 4, 2008
I'm on a celeron 1.73Ghz with 1Gb RAM and it works fine. Must be a Linux thing.
posted by missmagenta at 3:31 PM on June 4, 2008
Sorry for slowness, can't pinpoint it to any specific machine or setting yet... will keep listening to feedback.
Matt, Canvas is a vector framework that you can access in JavaScript... it works natively in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and with a little trick even in Internet Explorer... it is a lot of fun to use, but unfortunately, I don't know if there's any way to make it work fast enough in IE, all my speed tests were incredibly slow as soon as you add a couple of sprites or actually draw something. If there's any Flash guru out there who likes this project, please ping me at info@blogoscoped.com :) My friend who does Flash wanted to look into it perhaps after July.
posted by philipp at 3:41 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
Matt, Canvas is a vector framework that you can access in JavaScript... it works natively in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and with a little trick even in Internet Explorer... it is a lot of fun to use, but unfortunately, I don't know if there's any way to make it work fast enough in IE, all my speed tests were incredibly slow as soon as you add a couple of sprites or actually draw something. If there's any Flash guru out there who likes this project, please ping me at info@blogoscoped.com :) My friend who does Flash wanted to look into it perhaps after July.
posted by philipp at 3:41 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
Canvas is a vector framework that you can access in JavaScript... it works natively in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and with a little trick even in Internet Explorer...
If you count extremely slow and largely broken as working then yes, it works just fine in IE.
posted by public at 3:58 PM on June 4, 2008
If you count extremely slow and largely broken as working then yes, it works just fine in IE.
posted by public at 3:58 PM on June 4, 2008
Another vote for impossibly slow on FF/Linux with very recent hardware.
posted by DU at 4:03 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by DU at 4:03 PM on June 4, 2008
(Firefox and Safari only though)
Can I just say that - despite myself - I love seeing this?
posted by freebird at 4:15 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
Can I just say that - despite myself - I love seeing this?
posted by freebird at 4:15 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
BTW, I just showed it to a nine year old - whose immediate response was:
OH MY GOSH COOOOOL!
posted by R. Mutt at 4:59 PM on June 4, 2008
OH MY GOSH COOOOOL!
posted by R. Mutt at 4:59 PM on June 4, 2008
FF/win2k = runs like frozen molasses. (older 1.5 ghz machine)
By "frozen molasses" I mean "one particle update about every 2 seconds or so" which means it would take me approximately 25,000 years to draw Matt's doodle.
posted by loquacious at 5:03 PM on June 4, 2008
By "frozen molasses" I mean "one particle update about every 2 seconds or so" which means it would take me approximately 25,000 years to draw Matt's doodle.
posted by loquacious at 5:03 PM on June 4, 2008
I sometimes wonder why we don't see standalone graphics apps with these types of procedural capabilities - the closest yet is Studio Artist (currently Mac-only), the particle brushes in that program are just astounding. Thanks for this post, it's just too much fun!
posted by dbiedny at 5:46 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by dbiedny at 5:46 PM on June 4, 2008
A new version of Microsoft Paint that I need to open up a separate browser for? Color me underwhelmed.
posted by yhbc at 5:59 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by yhbc at 5:59 PM on June 4, 2008
Actually, the first few tools seem to be quite effective for drawing things that look a lot like subway maps.
This is either the subway map for a city that hired the mayor's nephew to plan it, or the art commissioned to hang in the women's bathroom in said subway.
posted by artifarce at 6:22 PM on June 4, 2008
This is either the subway map for a city that hired the mayor's nephew to plan it, or the art commissioned to hang in the women's bathroom in said subway.
posted by artifarce at 6:22 PM on June 4, 2008
If this only worked on IE, half this thread would be people complaining that it didn't work in firefox or Safari.
posted by Muddler at 6:45 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Muddler at 6:45 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
One of those mirror-like brushes caused a momentarily flashback to the days of Deluxe Paint IIe and it's mirroring brush.
posted by thylacine at 7:37 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by thylacine at 7:37 PM on June 4, 2008
Very pretty.
But yeah, feature request: ability to select own palettes.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:55 PM on June 4, 2008
But yeah, feature request: ability to select own palettes.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:55 PM on June 4, 2008
Canvas support will be much better in Firefox 3 which is shipping sometime this month. See one of the Firefox platform developer's blogs, HTML Canvas in Firefox 3, as well as documentation from the Mozilla Developer Center, Drawing text using a canvas, Canvas tutorial, for more detail.
posted by gen at 4:13 AM on June 5, 2008
posted by gen at 4:13 AM on June 5, 2008
The "save" is the little disk icon on the right side of the screen.
Just realized what a bad representation that is for save, nowadays.
posted by artifarce at 6:58 AM on June 5, 2008
Just realized what a bad representation that is for save, nowadays.
posted by artifarce at 6:58 AM on June 5, 2008
Bomomo is now available in an IExplorer version too, using a Flash conversion created by Nikolai Kordulla!
posted by philipp at 5:20 AM on June 24, 2008
posted by philipp at 5:20 AM on June 24, 2008
Running fine for me in FF 3 on Ubuntu 8.04.
Thank you philipp, lovely project.
posted by Sitegeist at 3:41 AM on June 27, 2008
Thank you philipp, lovely project.
posted by Sitegeist at 3:41 AM on June 27, 2008
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