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Acorn (software): Measurement, Major Features & Reviews and awards

Acorn is a raster graphic editor for macOS developed by August Mueller of Flying Meat Inc, based out of Mukilteo, Washington, United States. Acorn was first released on September 10, 2007 and was built upon the framework of a previous image editing application of Flying Meat Inc., FlySketch.

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Acorn (software) topic overview

The analysis highlights Measurement, Major Features and Reviews and awards as prominent areas in the source structure around Acorn (software).

Related topics
15
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
18
Extracted relationships
18
Related term clusters
9
Bridge connections
18

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Major Features · 6 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Reviews and awards · 4 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Developer
Flying Meat Inc.
License
Proprietary
Operating system
macOS
Release
September 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)
Stable release
8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]
Type
Raster graphics editor

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Reviews and awards

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How Acorn (software) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Acorn (software) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Acorn (software) → Flying Meat Inc. Another extracted example is Acorn (software) → Proprietary. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Acorn (software)

Top relations

Developer · 1
Acorn (software) → Flying Meat Inc.
License · 1
Acorn (software) → Proprietary
Operating system · 1
Acorn (software) → macOS
Release · 1
Acorn (software) → September 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)
Stable release · 1
Acorn (software) → 8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]
Type · 1
Acorn (software) → Raster graphics editor
Website · 1
Acorn (software) → flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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Important terminology

acorn image editing flying meat inc raster editor macos framework features photoshop built apple's native format vector filters custom color

Acorn (software) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Acorn (software). Examples in this analysis include Acorn (software) → Developer → Flying Meat Inc. and Acorn (software) → License → Proprietary. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Acorn (software)DeveloperFlying Meat Inc.1.00infobox
Acorn (software)LicenseProprietary1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Operating systemmacOS1.00infobox
Acorn (software)ReleaseSeptember 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Stable release8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]1.00infobox
Acorn (software)TypeRaster graphics editor1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Websiteflyingmeat.com/acorn/1.00infobox
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paninstance ofand image editing tools0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Acorn (software) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Editing, Image and Flying. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Acorn (software)
    • Editing
    • Image
    • Flying
    • Inc
    • Meat
    • Apple's
    • Brush
    • Built
    • Color
    • Custom
    • Designer
    • Editor
  • acorn (software)
    • Editing
    • Image
    • Flying
    • Inc
    • Meat
    • Apple's
    • Brush
    • Built
    • Color
    • Custom
    • Designer
    • Editor
  • raster graphic
    • August
    • Based
    • Developed
    • Mueller
    • Mukilteo
    • States
    • United
    • Washington
    • Editor
    • Graphics
    • Macos
    • Raster
  • macos
    • Raster
    • August
    • Based
    • Developed
    • Graphics
    • Mueller
    • Mukilteo
    • States
    • United
    • Washington
    • Apple's
    • Brush
  • core image
    • Apple's
    • Brush
    • Color
    • Custom
    • Designer
    • Filters
    • Tools
    • Graphics
    • Previous
    • Released
    • September
    • Upon
  • raw image
    • Apple's
    • Brush
    • Color
    • Custom
    • Designer
    • Filters
    • Tools
    • Graphics
    • Previous
    • Released
    • September
    • Upon
  • mukilteo, washington
    • August
    • Based
    • Developed
    • Graphic
    • Mueller
    • Mukilteo
    • States
    • United
    • Washington
    • Editor
    • Macos
    • Raster
  • photoshop
    • Vector
    • Graphics
    • Brush
    • Color
    • Custom
    • Designer
    • Filters
    • Native
    • Raster
    • Tools

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Acorn (software), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Acorn (software) with Major Features. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Acorn (software) — Major Features · splits 12 ⟂ 7
Acorn (software) — Overview · splits 13 ⟂ 6
Acorn (software) — Reviews and awards · splits 14 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Acorn (software)

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples18
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Acorn (software) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Measurement, Major Features & Reviews and awards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Acorn (software) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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