Clive Thompson had a very specific way of doodling when he was a kid, quite etch-a-sketchy. It reminded me of the patterns I found myself making at school when I should have been doing something more productive. He’s turned his into a web app, so we can all take our lines for a meander round the screen.
A machine for helping you doodle – Better Humans
Doodling helps cognition — so I built an app based on the strange way I doodled back in elementary school.
But why limit ourselves to just a computer monitor? Let’s take our lines for a wander around the whole world.
Land lines: Start with a line, let the planet complete the picture – Chrome Experiments
Satellite images provide a wealth of visual data from which we can visualize in interesting ways. Land Lines is an experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to create an infinite line of connected rivers, highways and coastlines.
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The open processing one looks really cool and I liked it a lot. The Google experiments one was very hypnotic too
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Yes they’re great time wasters
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