Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:26:50 -0700
From: Glen Chiacchieri
Subject: Re: Laser painting (was: "serengeti")
Yesterday, Dan Amelang brought his children into the office. Here's a short video of them playing with the laser painting and safari:

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They played with it for good portions of the afternoon. The boy, James, made some of the most complex paintings done on the system so far:


In fact, James was super impressed with the laser painting and serengeti, and wanted to use it in his school. I know Bret took a picture of James drawing a more complex picture than the one above yesterday. Would you mind posting it here, Bret?

From this video, it's easy to see that the painting should support multi-laser drawing, though it does appear to be kind of fun to make a mess with someone else. The social dynamics of navigating who's doing what are interesting, too. When is it okay to change the color or brush size while someone else is painting? Maybe there should be private color/brush controls per laser, but it's neat to see what happens when there isn't, especially depending on the users' relationship: brother and sister, colleagues, strangers, etc.

I should also look into making the painting perform a little better because it really gets bogged down after a bit.

Also, I've had a lot of fun playing with the kids we've brought into the office so far. More kids, please!

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Bret Victor wrote:

I visited a Liberian friend yesterday who teaches a computer class; they teach Microsoft Office by describing it, and drawing on pieces of paper. He was excited that he was able to obtain a mouse and bring it in for people to see, so that their understanding wouldn't be as abstract.



On Jul 9, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Dave Cerf wrote:

On some travels around the Internet today, I stumbled across this and thought Glen and other laser artists might appreciate.

The Flickr caption says: "VCN youth initiaive; Gallery Gachet - Art School Workshop"

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