one more helpful criticism: the 'epic' music in your video, for me at least, evokes the opposite of a zen-like, concentrated state. it brings up images of action movies, war scenes or documentaries about bridges.
As a helpful criticism: Great idea, but the execution needs improvement.<p>To my eyes the tree visualization is a good pre-alpha proof of concept but now it should be productized. I.e. the growth looks like simple parenting, the leafs are mostly awkward, etc. It does not look like a tree.
Not totally unique. I saw this app just some day ago: <a href="http://www.forestapp.cc/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forestapp.cc/</a>
I just bought this for fun from the appstore in order to support you guys. Maybe I'm missing something but there is no menubar item to show you a small representation of how much of the tree has left to grow. I would also like to ask you what windowless mode is supposed to do exactly?
I made a similar demo too with the HTML canvas <a href="http://yangcanvas.com/randomtrees" rel="nofollow">http://yangcanvas.com/randomtrees</a>
Some solutions are to imaginary problems, has to be said though that none of the trees outside my window look anything like the 'bushes' shown here!
Very nice! Reminds me of a small project I did a while ago (minus the pomodoro part): <a href="http://binarymax.com/tree.html" rel="nofollow">http://binarymax.com/tree.html</a>
Love the idea. I imagine the tree could be more organic and interesting though. Lots of animations have beautiful growing trees, maybe I'm thinking of Braid?
Are there good, researched algorithms for natural looking plant growth? I have hankered after creating a growing vine for years, but nothing looks natural (vs extending vectors)