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Version 1.2

• Compatible with iPhone OS 2.2.1

Version 1.1

• Shaking now just clears the foreground, leaving the background. Press the "Clear" button to clear everything
• Adjustable Transparency
• Upload to Facebook
• Swirls

Drawing cRaZy

I have been waiting since 2003 for someone to release something like TrippingFest. The idea behind TrippingFest is to draw many different things with many different colors. I am tired of waiting, so I built it for the iPhone.

Videos

• Part one of me drawing
• Part two of me drawing
• Part three of me drawing

Screenshots

Image Gallery

I have drawn quite a few pictures already: View Image Gallery

Features

• Multi-touch drawing
• three-way mirroring
• Crazy patterns
• Save/Load; load from camera or photo album
• Ranged Random Colors (in addition to drawing with a single color or completely random colors)
• Simple interface
• one step Undo/Redo (don't want to use too much memory)
• Shake to clear (as well as a regular clear button)

Drawing optical illusions

• When drawing, draw outward first, then pull back inward. This is the essence of creating 3-D effects
• Rnaged random colors can set the tone for a picture
• Random colors in general can make things look 3-D

Drawing crazy pictures

• Random colors look really good on thicker lines
• Set the drawing with all the way down and turn transparency to 75%. Now single colors rule
• Go crazy

Explanation of icons

Although I do not like substituting text with icons, iPhone users are used to this. Here is a diagram for things without proper labels.

History

Around 2003, I wrote a drawing program with Visual Basic 5 (not 6). You could draw lots of different patterns with random colors. It had automated random drawing and around 20 different patterns. I was in middle school at the time, so it also made fart noises.

After waiting for someone to make something superior and more complete (and release it for free), I could find no programs that captured the essence of TrippingFest. In early 2009, I embarked on efforts to make a multi-platform drawing platform based on the Visual Basic program with intent to release. I chose Java and before long I had a nice proof-of-concept. When I showed most people the demo they found it amazing. However, I swamped with irrelevant college coursework and I had to discontinue serious development. After school ended, I realized I would never finish the desktop version: I would never stop adding features.

I then realized that people who have iPhones would probably enjoy the app. I personally don't own an iPhone. I contacted some people over the Internet and found two people willing to loan me equipment for developing an iPhone application. Alex Alba lent me his iPhone for a week (In exchange, he got to use my really old Nokia brick phone). Kyle Coe/Sue Coe lent me their MacBook Intel with Leopard.

In one week, between work and school, I learned Objective-C, learned how to use the iPhone SDK, and finished the iPhone version of TrippingFest. Ironically, I still don't and probably never will own an iPhone.