PDP-8 Kaleidoscope app for iPhone and iPad

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Games
Developer: Scoundrels Point Software

Free

Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 03 Nov 2009
App size: 67.94 Kb

Creates complex moving patterns of lines and curves in response to touching the screen.

Kaleidoscope is based on an anonymously written program of the same name for the DEC PDP-8 computer. It was somewhat remarkable because the original program was only about 40 bytes long yet generated complex moving patterns consisting of various conic sections (circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas).