The macosxhints Rating:

[Score: 9 out of 10]

• Developer: LorenB.com / Product Page
  
• Price: Free

Odd picks two weeks in a row, ah well! Sproing is a um, spring simulator. I really can't think of a practical use for it in my job (either day job or macosxhints job), but it is fun to play with. The basic premise is that you put a bunch of nodes and springs on a blank slate, connect them, set some basic stiffness, damping, and gravity values, and then toss the sproingy around the screen. But instead of reading about it, just watch this short movie (644KB) to see what I'm talking about.

As I said, there's no real point to this app for me, but it's just kind of an interesting program, and sometimes that's enough for PotW status. In addition to opening the included sample sproings, you can check out SproingWorld and download sproings designed by others -- I like Beam2+skin4.sprg [3.2KB download].

That's about it; just an oddball, somewhat interesting, and fun to use program this week...oh yea, I gave it a 9 out of 10 because it's lacking the ability to add a rendered skin to the sproings (imagine the snake with a nice Panther faux fur wrapper!)