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Musophobia [iPhone]

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Inspired by the loophole in the rendering stage of openGL, Musophobia for the iPhone is an application that allows you to draw using a particle cluster of brushes.

Instead of a single brush like you would expect in other drawing applications, you wield up to 999 particle-brushes at once. Instead of using the brushes as you would expect traditionally, you instead merely interact with them: set them in motion on different trajectories, force them to fall, orbit on random centers, spin around the point of touch, collapse into a cluster or, simply, disturb by touching them. Particles can be modified to create different effects. Musophobia includes many options including changing particle size, color, recovery speed and interaciton sensitive options such as hue change speed or spin radius.

As the author points out, Musophobia was never meant to be a user-friendly application:

Musophobia takes away the full control of the users and reduces them to one of many parameters those bring life to the particles. In order to create, it forces you to cooperate. Musophobia is hard to master and most likely to frustrate.

A great new addition to the particle effect apps we review on CAN. What makes this app quite unique is the results you can achieve. From even the most traditional drawings to very complex particle compositions.

You can read and see more examples on cemsinacetin.com

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $0.99
Developer: Cem Sina Çetin
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Posted on: 27/08/2009

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  • Cem Sina Çetin

    wow, thank you very much for the review :)

  • Cem Sina Çetin

    wow, thank you very much for the review :)

  • Sara

    Well, I would like a word with the creator(s) of “musophobia.” Seriously.
    Ok, maybe not. I really just want to know whey they named it “musophobia.” I actually have this phobia, and I'm (finally) looking up information on it and this iphone app keeps popping up :-( Oddly, though, the drawings shown above made with “999 particle brushes” resemble the explosion in my head/eyes/brain that is triggered by the phobia. Honestly, I would like to know why you named it this. Thanks Sara

  • Cem Sina Çetin

    Hello Sara,

    I wish you mailed me instead of writing here, because I saw your message here purely by coincidence.

    When I first coded musophobia, it was only a pc application and the only functionality of the particles was escaping from the mouse cursor, in other words they were “afraid of the mouse”. so as the project name i started using musophobia. After turning this into a painting application and later an iphone application, the fear of mouse concept was not applicable anymore, but i decided to keep the name as a homage to the first version. besides “haphephobia” (fear of being touched) doesn’t sound as good as musophobia :).

    I hope you see this message and i’m sorry for distrupting your musophobia queries :)

    cheers,
    sina