Blink

Download Blink - Big animated Halloween eyes. [32 KB]

Blink Source Code

Download Blink Source Code [36 KB]

For Halloween, I point my monitors out the window in a dark room, and get cheesy animated blinking eyes.

The end user can set the eye color.

⌘Q to quit

For a programmer, the interesting things here are:

⌘T - Toggling full screen mode, for one or two monitors
Using NSBezierPath to draw a reasonable cartoon eyelid
A view with settable properties for eye open/closed, eye slew, pupil size, and iris color,
Overriding NSAnimation to animate the properties of the eye model
Chaining animations, for example: a blink is a close followed by an open.

Version 1.0 - initial release

Version 1.0.1 - Intel Compatibility

Version 1.0.2 - 10.4 Compatibility

Version 1.0.3 - Prevent System Sleep or Screensaver. Source code can also be compiled on 10.6

Xcode 3.1. or Xcode 3.2. Apache license.

Compatibility: Macintosh OS X 10.4 or later. Macintosh Intel or PowerPC.

Other Source Code by David Phillip Oster

Page last modified October 31, 2009