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Sproing - A spring (not the season!) simulator Pick of the Week
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Odd picks two weeks in a row, ah well! Sproing is a um, spring simulator. I really can't think of a practical use for it in my job (either day job or macosxhints job), but it is fun to play with. The basic premise is that you put a bunch of nodes and springs on a blank slate, connect them, set some basic stiffness, damping, and gravity values, and then toss the sproingy around the screen. But instead of reading about it, just watch this short movie (644KB) to see what I'm talking about.

As I said, there's no real point to this app for me, but it's just kind of an interesting program, and sometimes that's enough for PotW status. In addition to opening the included sample sproings, you can check out SproingWorld and download sproings designed by others -- I like Beam2+skin4.sprg [3.2KB download].

That's about it; just an oddball, somewhat interesting, and fun to use program this week...oh yea, I gave it a 9 out of 10 because it's lacking the ability to add a rendered skin to the sproings (imagine the snake with a nice Panther faux fur wrapper!)
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Sproing - A spring (not the season!) simulator
Authored by: momerath on Apr 14, '04 12:28:44AM

Haha, it is great fun to adjust the gravity to max with some of the spring documents and then change it to zero and back and forth and...

I shouldn't be having this much fun.



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Sproing - A spring (not the season!) simulator
Authored by: red6rick on Apr 14, '04 01:15:48AM
If you think this is cool, check the original at http://www.sodaplay.com called "Soda Constructor". This has been around a long time, and is truly amazing.

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Sproing - A spring (not the season!) simulator
Authored by: gdsimms on Apr 14, '04 01:54:02PM
Sorry, the original (or at least something more original than sodaplay) is xspringies. It an X11 app, so you can check it out too.

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Sproing - A spring (not the season!) simulator
Authored by: macFanDave on Apr 14, '04 10:52:31AM

I was thinking, "Why would the Apple Developer Connection sample code demonstrating the relationships between views during resizing make Pick of the Week?"

Then, I realized that the name was re-used for a completely different app!



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