On Mar 27, 2007, at 14:12 , Grit Schuster wrote:

> Plopp, the cool 3D painting tool is now ready for downloading at
> www.planet-plopp.com!
> Plopp is the first painting tool for kids where you can paint 3D  
> objects very easily! Just paint in 2D and Plopp will transform your  
> paintings into 3D objects! Friendly and helpful Plipp will assist  
> you. If you can do without help (and Plipp), try one of the  
> versions for "professionals".
> There are a number of different themes available, each coming with  
> extra templates. Current available themes are Classic, Space, On  
> the Farm, Horse-Riding, Wild West, Knight Castle and Aqua for grown- 
> ups.
>
> All Plopp versions are available for Windows 98,2000, and XP (Vista  
> coming soon), Mac OS X 10.2 and greater. Without a serial number  
> the Windows and Mac versions of Plopp run in demo mode so you can  
> give painting with Plopp a try. With one purchased serial number  
> you can run as many themes as you like as full version!
>
> Plopp Classic is also available for Ubuntu Linux for free! Try it!  
> (And send me comments, please.)
>
> Check out the tutorial videos (http://www.planet-plopp.com/ 
> biggerkids/tips.html), the wiideos (http://youtube.com/results? 
> search_query=plopp+wii&search=Search), and cool Plopp paintings  
> (http://www.planet-plopp.com/biggerkids/biggerkids.html)!

In case anybody is wondering - this is actually built in Squeak using  
Croquet (sans networking) and Tweak (for the UI). There has been a  
German-only version in stores since last April, this is the English  
version. Check it out, it's fun, and my kids love it :)

- Bert -