STORY
Wagon App and HSV Colorspace
Wagon App and HSV Colorspace
- Building a personal sobriety tracking app and the engineering challenge of creating a smooth rainbow background.
The Wagon App
- In June 2023, celebrating one year of sobriety (no alcohol), I wrote a custom mobile app for myself named "Wagon".
- I generated a nice wagon icon using DALL-E.
- Since there were already half a dozen similar tracking apps on the app stores, I didn't submit it and kept it as a personal utility.
- The app featured a pleasant, rotating-color background, which required me to learn about the HSV colorspace to implement an endless, smooth rainbow transition.
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.