Juggling Pack

Juggling Pack is a 2000 Mac application by Oscar Bascara that models the path of a juggling ball in terms of when and where each hand throws and catches it. Distributed on Macintosh Garden as an app rather than a game, the pack pairs an editor for designing patterns with an engine that animates them.

Ball timelines

The core abstraction is a ball timeline: a sequence of throw and catch events per hand that the software stitches into smooth arcing motions, letting jugglers describe patterns as data rather than draw them by hand.

Editor and engine

The Juggling Editor handles pattern authoring and editing, while the Juggling Engine plays back sequences of patterns with smooth transitions between them, useful for studying or rehearsing routines on screen.

Niche Mac tool

Juggling Pack sits in the small category of hobbyist Mac utilities aimed at performers, alongside other late-Classic-era niche tools posted to Macintosh Garden in the 2000s.