The latest Google doodle celebrates the work of mobile sculpture inventor, Alexander Calder, on what would have been his 113th birthday. It goes one step further than the playable Pac-Man Google doodle and the strummable Les Paul Google doodle by accurately responding to real world physics.
Using HTML5 Canvas, the image of the mobile moves when you click and drag the individual elements, simulating the momentum and interaction you’d get with the piece in a real life sculpture.
Most impressively, if your laptop has an accelerometer inside, rocking your machine makes the image swing with it. There are conflicting reports on which browsers work with this Google doodle but we found both Firefox 5 and Chrome play along nicely. Check it out and notice how the shadow underneath the search box moves too!
Out now | £free | Google
