Gallery: A Photo App That Teaches You to Be More Perceptive

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    Cucalu, an iPhone game designed to get people looking at their environment with fresh eyes, gets its name from the Dutch word "koekeloeren," which means “to look around.”
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    Players are challenged with missions like taking pictures in unfamiliar parts of their cities or finding specific shapes, like circles, in their environment.
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    Photos are voted on by other players and high scores unlock new missions.
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    Cucalu was inspired by its creator's round-the-world travels, but his goal is to get people excited about their homes.
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    The app features subtle design cues, like "onion skin" features that make it easy to center the target shape, creating similarity between the work of photographers who are a world apart.
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