Comments on: iPhone - Yellowtail

By: Jeff W

Jeff W — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:29 +0000

I gotta admit, I havent worked with C++ since college so I’m lost with all of the technical stuff but that video is pretty damn cool!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:48:26 +0000

Hey, this looks very cool! Have you come further with the release of the code? Would love to give it a look.

By: Lee Byron

Lee Byron — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:07:29 +0000

vade & Zach,

You certainly could use Objective C instead of C++, there is no performance hit for choosing either one to my knowledge.

My personal benefit is that I am not very comfortable with writing Objective C, and C++ is more homey to me. Add on to that many of my previous apps that I’d like to port to the iPhone are in C++, there are tons of libraries available in C++ and to top if off there is a big community of interactive art hackers that I’m appealing to with this (openFrameworks).

You certainly could make this exact same thing without touching C++.

Perhaps the point is that the flexibility to choose between the languages (or mix them) lets me work the way I like!

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:25:55 +0000

Cool stuff. But I’ll also ask: Why not Obj-C?

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:04:08 +0000

OK, that is sweet, especially with the multitouch.

Yellowtail could make a interesting signature verifier since it records both shape and speed.

How about some variants? It would be interesting to see things bounce off each other. Or closed shapes stay in place. Or draw a circle (or any closed shape), and then things drawn *in* that circle stay within it. Call it YellowCell…

Anyway, looking forward to draining my battery soon.

By: vade

vade — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:27:49 +0000

Out of curiosity, why would I not want to use Cocoa?/OBJ-C ?