Comments on: Made on my phone.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:10:43 +0000

You could make the monome paint, sure. It’s just a grid of buttons that light up. So you can use it as something like a Lite-Brite. The drawback is that it’s very low-resolution, only 16 x 16 pixels for the largest one (at about 2 pixels per inch), while the iPhone is 480×320 at 160ish pixels per inch. Also, the monome pixels only have two states, lit or unlit. (Well, one guy has gotten a third state to work, flicker, but it’s highly annoying.)

Still, I’m being way too literal. You could definitely make images with it, and I have no doubt Rogan could figure out some awesome way to use it to make awesome-looking things.

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:51:11 +0000

I love the lollipop. It looks like a ballerina – such a cool image.

I have a HTC 3G phone, which is the exact replica of the I-phone with similar applications, except that it uses windows software and has an attached keyboard. It’s great for writing, but I never actually took the time to figure out how to paint with it. I sketch a lot, dragons and faces mostly.

Dave, I wonder, if you can hook your monome (the right spelling?) up to a painting software. The way you explained it: it musically interacts with your computer – you press a button then the computer responds. I don’t know much about it, but if it worked with a painting software the same way, you could literally “paint” a melody or a harmony, which could be kind of cool.

By: Rogan Ferguson

Rogan Ferguson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:09:27 +0000

Quick update: I learned that Brushes saves the history of your drawing, and that these histories can be easily turned into YouTube vids. I have attached a YouTube version of one of the painting to the post above.

By: Marleyfan

Marleyfan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:02:44 +0000

Very cool!

By: Rogan Ferguson

Rogan Ferguson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:48:51 +0000

3: Interesting. I think a lot of people are afraid to draw for fear that the result will become an undeniable token of one’s personal lameness. But there is just so much raw pleasure in mark-making, and these apps really scratch that itch once you surrender to your heart’s secret longing to make piles and piles of kitsch.