Android apps by Liberus

TarotBot Android tarot reader

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:44:05 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

TarotBot Android Tarot Reader

TarotBot is an open source framework for tarot readings on Android devices with switchable card decks and interpretations.

The interface, which re-presents tarot, was designed with the primary goal to only draw from the physical artifacts (the deck of cards) those attributes which are meaningful to the reading: imagery, interpretations, and context. The traditional shuffling, dealing, and arranging of the cards is removed from the process allowing a much more streamlined reading experience to emerge. The experience may lack some traditional elements but conducting readings for one’s self, especially on the go, is far from traditional.

While other tarot apps seek to replicate the experience of tarot cards TarotBot aims to evolve tarot into a new medium.
When tarot is most effective is when one uses intuition to interpret the cards, however interpretations are provided to help anyone unfamiliar with tarot. These are a synthesis of experience and research conducted during development.

Primary research sources include:

The Oracle of the Tarot by Paul Foster Case

Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis

Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning

Sex Magic, Tantra, and Tarot by Christopher Hyatt

The deck included with the free versions is a vintage 1909 deck with artwork by Pamela Coleman Smith

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

The Gothic Tarot

Fri, 20 May 2011 02:22:12 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

Based on The Gothic Tarot created and illustrated by Joseph Vargo, which features all 78 cards of the Major and Minor Arcana represented by original depictions of gargoyles, vampires, ghosts, and dark angels. This app includes gothic symbolism, card meanings and reversals, and offers five unique gothic spreads, plus browse, save and share features.

Since the early 1990s, the name Joseph Vargo has become synonymous with gothic fantasy. His darkly hypnotic images have graced the covers of magazines, books, and music cds, as well as calendars, posters, t-shirts and tarot cards. He is a noted composer and musician, earning worldwide acclaim with his band Nox Arcana and the various other musical projects that he has produced. In addition to his art and music, Joseph is also an accomplished author and has written numerous articles, short stories and books. Vargo's chilling, mist-shrouded world of forlorn ghosts, brooding vampires, living gargoyles and other creatures of the night have earned him an immense and loyal following.

Enter a world of forbidden crypts, restless spirits, seductive vampires and haunted towers full of mystery and terror. Enter the unforgettable world of Joseph Vargo, modern master of gothic fantasy: www.MonolithGraphics.com

Recent changes:
fixed ICS crashing
improved high definition image management

TarotBot Marseille:Noblet free

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:02:22 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

TarotBot Flornoy series

In loving memory of Jean-Claude Flornoy, thank you for bringing new life to the Tarot.

The Marseille tarot

It is generally known that the denomination "Marseille tarot" became mainstream in the 1930’s when Paul Marteau, in response to the increasingly popularity of Golden Dawn-based decks, decided to re-launch the French tarot by reprinting an old version of the Nicolas Conver deck, calling it the 'Veritable tarot de Marseille'. Marteau may have gotten the idea from the fact that three hundred years before, the city of Marseilles was the main port through which French tarot decks were exported to the rest of the world. It seemed appropriate, then, to baptize the French tradition as being 'from 'Marseille'. Or perhaps Marteau borrowed the term from Papus, who wrote in his book, 'le Tarot des bohémiens': "We hope that for this purpose you have procured the Tarot of Marseilles, the most correct in its symbolism". This was, indeed, the earliest known use of the term. That is how several decks sharing similar distinctive features but produced in various localities (the Jean Noblet tarot, for example, was printed in Paris in 1650, while the Jean Dodal was printed in Lyon in 1701) ended up consigned to the same label.

Think of the Marseille tradition as the champagne of tarots: a denomination that transcends its geographical origin to define a very unique kind of experience.

The Marseille is the most poetic of all tarots. Each card contains a hint from another card, in an endless game of visual resonances. Linked to la langue des oiseaux (the Language of The Birds), French folklore suggests that the Marseille tarot speaks directly to the eye in the subtle voice of its characters' gestures. The Marseille tarot borrows its language from the Romanesque cathedrals of France, from the chanting arms of medieval heraldry, and from the French people's love of puns and wordplay. The Marseille tarot hides its secrets in the obvious.

Tarotbot gives you the opportunity to experience the Marseille tarot, either through Jean Noblet's elegant design or through the rough shapes of Jean Dodal. Both have been restored, from the only original surviving decks kept in the British Museum and the Biblioteque Nationale of France, by master card-maker Jean-Claude Flornoy.

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

LiteraTarot Oceania free

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:43:49 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

The theme of this deck series is great classics of literature, either contemporary or of the past. The goal of this project is to merge a recognizable element of literature to the traditional and symbolic meaning of a specific Tarot card image. This fusion comes from the esoteric value that in the distant past was connected to heraldry, whereas the image (called “the body”) was joined to a maxim or ‘motto’ (referred to as “the soul”), forming a commemorative “coat of arms”.
The project includes 5 decks, one for each continent. This collaborative deck by 22 artists from Oceania was hosted by Fern Mercier & Lyn Olds.

Pat Reble
0 - Matto/Fool - Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Keron Smith
I - Bagatto/Magician - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Ronnie Wiblin
II - Papessa/High Priestess - The Sibylline Prophecies

Aileen Flynn
III - Imperatrice/Empress - Homer’s Hymn to Gaia

Jason Dean
IV - Imperatore/Emperor - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Louise Sadgrove
V - Papa/Hierophant - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Project Host: Fern Mercier
http://www.tarot.net.nz/
VI - Amanti/Lovers - Psyche and Eros by Apuleius

Melanie Cook
VII - Carro/Chariot - The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear

Helen A Meinicke
http://farsighttarot.com/
VIII - Giustizia/Justice - Pomera (Banksia), one of the Dreamtime Stories from Stradbroke Dreamtime by Kath Walker

Catherine Ballantyne
IX - Eremita/Hermit - The Envoy From Mirror City by Janet Frame

Claudia Pond Eyley
X - Ruota di Fortuna/Wheel of Fortune - The Monk’s Tale by Chaucer

Ben Scott
XI - Forza/Strength - Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Bron Deed
XII - Appeso/Hanged One - Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kaz Blennerhassett
XIII - Morte/Death - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Sarah McKenney
XIV - Temperanza/Temperance - Angel at my Table by Janet Frame

Linde Rosenberg
XV - Diavolo/Devil - The Bible

Roisin Kearney
XVI - Torre/Tower - Tower of Babel Genesis Chap 11. Bible

Mala Mayo
XVII - Stelle/Stars - Manon de Sources by Marcel Pagnol

Samar Ocean Wolf Ciprian
XVIII - Luna/Moon - The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

Project Host: Lyn Howarth-Olds and Scott Olds
XIX - Sole/Sun - Maui and the Sun

Steve Farac-Ciprian
XX - Giudizio/Judgement - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Lynda Robinson
XXI - Mondo/World - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

Tarot of the New Moon free

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:14:58 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

Maria Teresa Monti created the Tarocchi Della Luna Nuova (Tarot of the New Moon) between 1982 and 1983 using a combination of pencil, ink and tempera. Museo dei Tarocchi has published it in a gorgeous limited edition of only 300 numbered copies.

Monti's Tarot cards are beautiful, the colors vibrant, and the whole production was obviously made with great care. The imagery is based on traditional symbolism while also having a rather contemporary look and feel.

The Major Arcana and Court cards are rich in both color and meaning. The Pip cards are the traditional suit symbols (rather than scenery). They are not titled but instead the required number of symbols are depicted on the cards in appealing designs. The titles on the Majors and Court Cards are in Italian.

TarotBot Android Tarot Reader

TarotBot is an open source framework for tarot readings on Android devices with switchable card decks and interpretations.

The interface, which re-presents tarot, was designed with the primary goal to only draw from the physical artifacts (the deck of cards) those attributes which are meaningful to the reading: imagery, interpretations, and context. The traditional shuffling, dealing, and arranging of the cards is removed from the process allowing a much more streamlined reading experience to emerge. The experience may lack some traditional elements but conducting readings for one’s self, especially on the go, is far from traditional.

While other tarot apps seek to replicate the experience of tarot cards TarotBot aims to evolve tarot into a new medium.
When tarot is most effective is when one uses intuition to interpret the cards, however interpretations are provided to help anyone unfamiliar with tarot. These are a synthesis of experience and research conducted during development.

Primary research sources include:

The Oracle of the Tarot by Paul Foster Case

Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis

Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning

Sex Magic, Tantra, and Tarot by Christopher Hyatt

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

Tarot Trumps of Merlin free

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:01:35 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

Powerful imagery inspired by the mythology of Merlin featuring original artwork by Gloria Ricci published in card form by Museo Dei Tarocchi.

Lovers of fantasy art and lore will likely find this richly colorful vision of the Trumps an enchanting deck. The artist pays homage to Celtic legend and to favorite fantasy writers such as Tolkien. Beautifully illustrated, this is an imaginative visit into the world of magical myths.

TarotBot Android Tarot Reader

TarotBot is an open source framework for tarot readings on Android devices with switchable card decks and interpretations.

The interface, which re-presents tarot, was designed with the primary goal to only draw from the physical artifacts (the deck of cards) those attributes which are meaningful to the reading: imagery, interpretations, and context. The traditional shuffling, dealing, and arranging of the cards is removed from the process allowing a much more streamlined reading experience to emerge. The experience may lack some traditional elements but conducting readings for one’s self, especially on the go, is far from traditional.

While other tarot apps seek to replicate the experience of tarot cards TarotBot aims to evolve tarot into a new medium.
When tarot is most effective is when one uses intuition to interpret the cards, however interpretations are provided to help anyone unfamiliar with tarot. These are a synthesis of experience and research conducted during development.

Primary research sources include:

The Oracle of the Tarot by Paul Foster Case

Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis

Learning the Tarot by Joan Bunning

Sex Magic, Tantra, and Tarot by Christopher Hyatt

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

Baroque Bohemian Cats Tarot

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Three elements: real cats of all colours and breeds, gorgeous Baroque costumes, and a luxurious European environment, have been digitally blended into a workable Tarot deck for all cat lovers.

The Baroque Bohemian Cat Tarotbot translates the beautiful work by Alex Ukolov and Karen Mahony into a fully featured Android application. Multiple layouts, a hauntingly complex musical score, and customized text featuring the insight of tarot symbolism combined with the wisdom of the feline complete this masterpiece.

Software Features:

* A helpful and intuitive interface

* Customized text

* High-Resolution Images

* Intuitive Access to Keyboard

* Includes traditional B.O.T.A. layout

* Save and Load individual readings

* Browse individual cards and meanings

* Support for card of the day widget

* Easy to use multiple views

* Powered by rigorous open-source engine

Recent changes:
fixed a bug in the Cat of the day widget

Steampunk TarotBot

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:56:56 +0000

Optimized for Honeycomb tablets and small screen devices

includes the full text of Pictorial Key to the Steampunk Tarot by Charissa Drengsen

“Steampunk” (term coined by K. W. Jeter in a letter to Locus Magazine, in April 1987) is now a full-blown 21st Century subculture that embraces a vision of a futuristic, alternate-universe (perhaps post-apocalyptic) Victorian/Edwardian age featuring brass and copper steam-powered inventions that go far beyond 1800's technology. This world includes mechanical wonders such as gear-driven computers, modern dirigibles, modded clockwork, time machines and flying contraptions. Influenced by a range of literature from Jules Verne and H. G. Wells to Lemony Snicket and Alan Moore, steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk but tends to be less dystopian.

I do not pretend to be an authority on what is and what is not steampunk. Personally, I think anyone who pretends expertise is treading on dangerous ground. The steampunk subculture is an evolving entity, as open to definition and reinterpretation as slang, fashion and genre usually are. The images I created for this deck of tarot cards are merely my own personal vision, how steampunk speaks to me as an artist, where it intersects with myth and archetype. My wish and desire is that they will speak to you as well, opening a window onto another vista you may not have gazed upon before.

From where I stand, one of the important aspects of steampunk is the way it brings together the masculine and the feminine, the hard and the soft, yin and yang, east and west. As Jake von Slatt said, “the intersection of technology and romance.” It seems to lend itself quite well to the archetypes of the tarot, which seek to find that path at the balancing point of extremes. That place we find ourselves as a people, moving fast on a speeding locomotive toward an uncertain future.

Artist Charissa Drengsen of curly-cue design has been working as a freelance artist, designer and writer since 1989. She graduated from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in 1999 with a BA in Integral Studies, after which she pursued an MFA in Transformative Arts at John F Kennedy University in Berkeley. Her work is influenced by post-modernism, theoretical quantum physics, vintage sensibilities, 21st Century sub-cultures, and a fascination with dystopia and decline of civilization.

Charissa has had her hands in many pies over the past several years, including: pin up photography, upcycled fashion, scenic painting for theatre, murals, mixed media fine art & assemblage, jewelry making, pop art, documenting decay, teaching, vintage photo restoration, soft sculpture, and playing with paper dolls. She makes her home in that hobo town Petaluma, California with her fiesty teenage daughter and a passle of quirky cats. The walls of her room are painted burnt orange.

TarotBot Android Tarot Reader

TarotBot is an open source framework for tarot readings on Android devices with switchable card decks and interpretations.

The interface, which re-presents tarot, was designed with the primary goal to only draw from the physical artifacts (the deck of cards) those attributes which are meaningful to the reading: imagery, interpretations, and context. The traditional shuffling, dealing, and arranging of the cards is removed from the process allowing a much more streamlined reading experience to emerge. The experience may lack some traditional elements but conducting readings for one’s self, especially on the go, is far from traditional.

While other tarot apps seek to replicate the experience of tarot cards TarotBot aims to evolve tarot into a new medium.
When tarot is most effective is when one uses intuition to interpret the cards, however interpretations are provided to help anyone unfamiliar with tarot. These are a synthesis of experience and research conducted during development.

Recent changes:
added ability to save custom text with cards
added ability to use multiple custom decks

TarotBot Dodal free

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:14:12 +0000

TarotBot Marseille Noblet

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:38:29 +0000