An Ode to Kai's Power Goo(macworld.com) |
An Ode to Kai's Power Goo(macworld.com) |
This was in 2000. Today, given the insanity about political correctness, i would expect nothing less of a SWAT team, 3 months of required psych counseling, and getting expelled as minimum punishment.
Here's a link to the wikipedia article about the developer, Kai Krause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause
He sold the software to Corel (remember them?) and bought a castle in Germany. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Breisig (the German article has more pictures).
Would be fun to have these tools back on an iPad to play around with my kids.
It has a nice picture at https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Rheineck#/media/Datei%3.... That definitely has everything you want in a castle (tower, walls, courtyard, situated on top of a hill), but also seems liveable, with something resembling a house built next to the back wall.
Kai was showing off how you could take a blurry satellite image of a parking lot and do a "spy movie" style zoom and enhance to reveal a car's license plate, which was impressive back then.
The UI was just plain crazy, especially by today's standards.
http://www.alienskin.com/eyecandy/
I loved the hell out of those days.
"Computers = Ticket to Hell"
I think a lot of (especially graphics) companies were more irreverent back then.
I will now list some Kai/MetaTools/MetaCreations products that were also awesome in part because of their crazy UIs.
Kai's Power Soap Bryce Poser Carrara Camino
The UI was gloriously white and 3D way before skeuomorphism was even a word.
Is there an open source version of goo? Or a description of the algorithm?
It doesn't look impossibly difficult to work out, but it would be useful to know how other people approached it.