{"id":12911,"date":"2015-11-24T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12911"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:00:30","slug":"an-ode-to-kais-power-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/an-ode-to-kais-power-goo\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Kai&rsquo;s Power Goo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3005783\/software-graphics\/an-ode-to-kais-power-goo.html\">Christopher Phin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3005783\/software-graphics\/an-ode-to-kais-power-goo.html\">\n<p>Power Goo&rsquo;s features&mdash;the ability to smear regions of an image around and paint bits of one photo onto another to create composites&mdash;seem unexceptional today, but in the &rsquo;90s, this was mind-meltingly exciting stuff, not in and of itself maybe, but in how easy and fun Power Goo made the process.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at that interface! That&rsquo;s the thing I remember about Power Goo at least as much as the images you could create with it. It really felt for a few years that this was how software might look in the future: not staid, rectilinear, essentially monochrome buttons and menus, but big, juicy, floating 3D buttons and big, exciting levers that you pull to change variables. It was a future that lots of people thought was horrendous, of course&mdash;silly Fisher Price exuberances getting in the way of your work&mdash;but after decades of the command line and the established modern GUI conventions, it was at the very least new, and I&rsquo;d argue intoxicating too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/2.10\/page11.shtml\">Bryce 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/5.04\/kpt.shtml\">Kai&rsquo;s Power Tools 5<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Phin: Power Goo&rsquo;s features&mdash;the ability to smear regions of an image around and paint bits of one photo onto another to create composites&mdash;seem unexceptional today, but in the &rsquo;90s, this was mind-meltingly exciting stuff, not in and of itself maybe, but in how easy and fun Power Goo made the process. Just look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,619,295,30,32,1314],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-graphics","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-metatools"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12912,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}