Sunday, June 15, 2025

Antique HyperCard animation: Schrödinger's Cat

I hadn't seen this animation since I created it in 1989, using Apple's HyperCard. But my brother Paul had kept a copy and he turned it into an app and shared it online yesterday. I promptly turned it into a video, below. It still makes me laugh.



HyperCard was an application that used to come free with each Macintosh computer.

It's basically cell animation - I simply drew a slightly different image on each subsequent card and then ran them in a sequence. Similar to the technique used in animated movies until computer animation took over. I use computer animation via Adobe Premier now.

I used to feel bad that this HyperCard sequence made Erwin Schrödinger look like a guy who was mean to cats, but then I found out Schrödinger sexually abused teenaged girls so now I'm glad he looks like a jerk.