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Gobo
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.
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Name Origin
The burdock root.
Gobo was named by Scratch Team member Natalie. According to Natalie, she got the idea from Gobo vegetable, also known as burdock root in English.[4] Gobo was originally named "Blob".[5]
Uses outside Scratch
A modified version of Gobo, named Alonzo after Alonzo Church, is used as the mascot for the programming language Snap!.[6] It has a "tail" depicting the Greek lowercase letter lambda (λ), which, in computer science, is often used as a symbol of functional programming. Some Scratchers say that Snap!* stole Gobo,[7] but it was used with permission from the Scratch Team.[8]
Images
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Some of the versions and appearances
The normal Gobo sprite (vector)
The second version of the Gobo sprite (vector)
The third version of the Gobo sprite (bitmap)
Gobo from behind
The mascot for Snap!, Alonzo.
Gobo in Super Scratch Programming Adventure
Concept art of Gobo, shown in Video update 5
Keychain created by Scratch Team member cheddargirl
Gobo as an onion with Gobo's Friends as food in the 2015 April Fools' Day.
Gobo in a box with Scratch blocks in the old 500 Error image.
Gobo on the Front Page of the Scratch Website in Scratch 2.0 advertising for users to join the site.
Gobo when hovered over on the Scratch Website in 2.0.
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.[9]
To use this emoji on the Scratch Wiki, see Template:E.
Trivia
- Gobo is sometimes misidentified as a fish.[10]
- Gobo sometimes has a tail[11] and sometimes does not.[12]
- Gobo was originally going to be the main mascot for Scratch.[13]
- Gobo is featured in the profile picture of the official Scratch Design Studio account. [14]
See Also
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121205020306/http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2012/11/meet-scratch-20-development-team.html
- projects:10001345
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110222202556/http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2011/02/top-10-images-in-scratch.html
- users:natalie/#comments-3492143[dead link]
- yt:a- YhpoqHBk
- "Alonzo, the Snap!* mascot, is named after Alonzo Church" https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf
- gameboy987. (13/01/2022). "i found a site copying scratch and their name is "Snap!", their mascot is a cheap copy of Gobo and their site is snap.berkeley.edu" topic:571932
- Brian Harvey. (19/07/2022). "Gobo is not freely licensed, but we have special permission for our modified version." https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/t/new-costumes-in-v8-0/11512
- Scratch_Emojis#gobo_and_waffle
- projects:60372828
- post:699158
- projects:2777405
- projects:273675374
- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScratchDesignStudio/