David Crooks
@david-crooks.bsky.social
Developing creative applications for iOS and VisionOS
Art • Code • Maths • Physics
Art • Code • Maths • Physics
Just launched my new app: Stop Motion Magic
Stop Motion Magic makes it super easy to stop motion movies with your iPhone camera. It's got tons of powerful features too - onion skin, motions guides, rotoscoping, sound effects and much more!
apps.apple.com/gb/app/stop-...
Stop Motion Magic makes it super easy to stop motion movies with your iPhone camera. It's got tons of powerful features too - onion skin, motions guides, rotoscoping, sound effects and much more!
apps.apple.com/gb/app/stop-...
Stop Motion Magic
Bring Your Imagination to Life — One Frame at a Time!
Stop Motion Magic is your all-in-one stop motion animation studio—right on your iPhone. Whether you're a hobbyist, a student, or a professional ...
apps.apple.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just launched my new app: Stop Motion Magic
Stop Motion Magic makes it super easy to stop motion movies with your iPhone camera. It's got tons of powerful features too - onion skin, motions guides, rotoscoping, sound effects and much more!
apps.apple.com/gb/app/stop-...
Stop Motion Magic makes it super easy to stop motion movies with your iPhone camera. It's got tons of powerful features too - onion skin, motions guides, rotoscoping, sound effects and much more!
apps.apple.com/gb/app/stop-...
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It is 1997, 2001, 2018, 2022, 2025 and a Jurassic Park sequel has bad reviews that are inconsequential to its strong opening weekend box office
July 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It is 1997, 2001, 2018, 2022, 2025 and a Jurassic Park sequel has bad reviews that are inconsequential to its strong opening weekend box office
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Hey everyone, would you do me a favor?
Can you help me spread the word about Step Into Vision? A few hundred visionOS developers find it super useful but I haven't broken out into the rest of the Apple Dev world.
Can you help put a spotlight on this project?
Can you help me spread the word about Step Into Vision? A few hundred visionOS developers find it super useful but I haven't broken out into the rest of the Apple Dev world.
Can you help put a spotlight on this project?
You know how I love to celebrate milestones. Today is a big one. I just published my 200th post on Step Into Vision 🎉
My goal is to create the best resource for #visionOS developers. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm well on my way!
stepinto.vision
My goal is to create the best resource for #visionOS developers. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm well on my way!
stepinto.vision
April 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hey everyone, would you do me a favor?
Can you help me spread the word about Step Into Vision? A few hundred visionOS developers find it super useful but I haven't broken out into the rest of the Apple Dev world.
Can you help put a spotlight on this project?
Can you help me spread the word about Step Into Vision? A few hundred visionOS developers find it super useful but I haven't broken out into the rest of the Apple Dev world.
Can you help put a spotlight on this project?
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Lynch's sincerity and his penchant for exploring human darkness ultimately sprung from the same well, which is why his influence is so vast and why it's so difficult to do something """Lynchian.""" But he really loved when a thing was earnest and "corny," as seen below.
youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?...
youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?...
David Lynch watching It's a Wonderful Life
YouTube video by These Toe Thumbs
youtu.be
January 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Lynch's sincerity and his penchant for exploring human darkness ultimately sprung from the same well, which is why his influence is so vast and why it's so difficult to do something """Lynchian.""" But he really loved when a thing was earnest and "corny," as seen below.
youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?...
youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?...
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If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.
December 9, 2024 at 4:51 AM
If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.
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Wallace and Gromit went to the Moon for a cheese holiday in 1989 so don't give me this pioneering bullshit about Elon Musk.
December 7, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Wallace and Gromit went to the Moon for a cheese holiday in 1989 so don't give me this pioneering bullshit about Elon Musk.
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Winning 1st place in a programming competition must feel terrible. You were so close.
December 4, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Winning 1st place in a programming competition must feel terrible. You were so close.
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Remarkable Fossil Footprints Show Two Hominin Species Coexisting 1.5 Million Years Ago gizmodo.com/remarkable-f...
Remarkable Fossil Footprints Show Two Hominin Species Coexisting 1.5 Million Years Ago
A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ancestors' story.
gizmodo.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Remarkable Fossil Footprints Show Two Hominin Species Coexisting 1.5 Million Years Ago gizmodo.com/remarkable-f...
Is it just me, or does the Bluesky iOS app have terrible performance? Scrolling is really jittery.
November 29, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Is it just me, or does the Bluesky iOS app have terrible performance? Scrolling is really jittery.
Has anyone got the new iPhone 16 camera control working in a SwiftUI app? I've followed the steps but it just doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure what I'm missing. #swift #ios #swiftui
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Enhancing your app experience with the Camera Control | Apple Developer Documentation
Provide direct access to your camera app’s features to help people quickly capture the perfect shot.
developer.apple.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Has anyone got the new iPhone 16 camera control working in a SwiftUI app? I've followed the steps but it just doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure what I'm missing. #swift #ios #swiftui
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
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I just published the Step Into Newsletter for November 24, 2024 🚀
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision/articles/ste...
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision/articles/ste...
Step Into Newsletter – November 24, 2024
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision
November 24, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I just published the Step Into Newsletter for November 24, 2024 🚀
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision/articles/ste...
Improved Gesture Examples, exploring Immersive Spaces, and celebrating an arbitrary milestone!
stepinto.vision/articles/ste...
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This Friday @fosiadesign.bsky.social and I got an app idea we got really excited about. We spent the weekend playing around with RealityKit, CoreML, and ARKit and got a little tech demo working 😊
#visionOS #realityView #coreML #ARKit #buildInPublic #indieDev
#visionOS #realityView #coreML #ARKit #buildInPublic #indieDev
November 24, 2024 at 10:21 PM
This Friday @fosiadesign.bsky.social and I got an app idea we got really excited about. We spent the weekend playing around with RealityKit, CoreML, and ARKit and got a little tech demo working 😊
#visionOS #realityView #coreML #ARKit #buildInPublic #indieDev
#visionOS #realityView #coreML #ARKit #buildInPublic #indieDev
My app Art Grid made it to number 3 in the Graphics & Design Chart!
November 24, 2024 at 4:55 PM
My app Art Grid made it to number 3 in the Graphics & Design Chart!
This is some sort of deformed liquid metal torus knot, rendered with RealityKit LowLevelMesh on VisionOS #visionOs #visionPro #knots
November 24, 2024 at 3:11 PM
This is some sort of deformed liquid metal torus knot, rendered with RealityKit LowLevelMesh on VisionOS #visionOs #visionPro #knots
Here's a fun VisionOS experiment I made a while back. I'm using LowLevelTexture to run a fluid simulation on the surface of a pinched torus in RealityKit:
November 24, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Here's a fun VisionOS experiment I made a while back. I'm using LowLevelTexture to run a fluid simulation on the surface of a pinched torus in RealityKit: