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Gobo is a sprite that comes with all installations of Scratch. Gobo was named by Scratch Team member Natalie Rusk.[1] It was drawn by Wing Ngan.[2] On February 14, 2011, the Scratch Team announced that Gobo was the ninth most common sprite used in projects uploaded to the Scratch Website (after buttonPressed).[3] It is unknown how commonly the sprite has been used more recently.
Gobo was originally named "Blob".[4]
Name Origin
Gobo was named by Scratch Team member Natalie Rusk. According to Natalie, she got the idea from Gobo vegetable, also known as burdock root in English.[5]
Uses
A modified version of Gobo is used as the logo for the Scratch modification Build Your Own Blocks. It has a "tail" depicting the Greek lowercase letter lambda (λ), which, in computer science, represents the time window over which a process is observed for determining the working memory set for a digital computer's virtual memory management.
Images
- Versions of Gobo
The normal Gobo sprite (bitmap)
The second version of the Gobo sprite (bitmap)
The third version of the Gobo sprite (bitmap)
The mascot for BYOB, Alonzo, named after Alonzo Church.
Concept art of Gobo, shown in Video update 5
Keychain created by cheddargirl
Gobo as an onion with Gobo's Friends as food in the 2015 April Fools' Day
Gobo Emoji
In a comment, if a user types _gobo_ it will create an emoji. The emoji appears as an image of Gobo. This image was introduced in Scratch 2.0, alongside _waffle_.
To use this emoji on the wiki, see Template:E.
Trivia
- Gobo is sometimes misidentified as a fish.[6]
See Also
References
- ↑ http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2012/11/meet-scratch-20-development-team.html
- ↑ http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10001345/
- ↑ http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2011/02/top-10-images-in-scratch.html
- ↑ http://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/youtube/a-_YhpoqHBk/
- ↑ http://scratch.mit.edu/users/natalie/#comments-3492143
- ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/60372828/
