One from the past

So this is a thing I thought should exist.

I made this image more than 5 years ago.  I posted it to /r/somebodymakethis 

It seems appropriate to mention this around now.  It appears somebody did.    My motivation wasn't to stake a claim on the idea but to encourage it and hopefully prevent someone else jealously guarding the idea as their own private creation.   Since I made the image, there have been a few active styluses turn up as third party devices.   I doubt they copied my idea.  I think it is more likely that it is a logical advance on touchscreen devices.

I haven't seen a great deal about the Apple Pencil yet,  but I hope they have fully explored the potential beyond just a precise pointing device with pressure.   The ability to use a stylus and a finger on the same surface and to be able to distinguish one from another adds a lot of options for user interface design.  I mention in the image text a few of the possibilities I had imagined.

A program like SculptGL  could make excellent use of fingers and stylus together.  Rotate the model with your fingers and shape it with the stylus. 

Start

So here we are.  I have made a Blog of sorts.  I'm not naturally disposed to maintaining a regular journal, but I am someone who tends to make things and experiment with ideas.  So this will be more for posting my creations and ideas.   This will be predominantly technical and software oriented, but I might just throw in the occasional odd thing.

It is also worth noting that I happen to be a  bit bi-polar, so I have a tendency to produce a bunch of things quickly then go into a down period where nothing happens.   I have a strategy for handling this.   It turns out that, by not creating this blog sooner, I have a substantial body of work that I can fall back on while I wallow in the pits of despair.  

That means I'll be posting new things as I make them, and things from the mists of time that got made and then sat around not doing much.   Perhaps some people will find them interesting.