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iOrnament - The Art of Symmetry

       iOS Universal

➤ Users Comments: "Fantastic Artscience offering!", "Such a fun, beautiful and relaxing App.",...
➤ 10/10 stars on Musthaveapps.de
➤ Third place in Best App Ever Awards
➤ Global 4.8 stars average rating based on more than 600 ratings

iOrnament combines art and science, creativity and education, math and fun. With iOrnament everyone can be an artist. You draw strokes and iOrnament repeats them according to rules of symmetry. You will create fascinating ornaments and intricate designs. Fun and challenge from ages 3 to 103. Interactive pop-up tutorial and many drawing tips included!

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iOrnament is an app that is designed for drawing ornamental designs that are both artistically and mathematically fascinating. You draw simple strokes and the app repeats them over and over according to the rules of the 17 crystallographic wallpaper groups. By this, fantastic symmetric patterns are created. Kaleidoscope like pictures, tilings, complicated knots and artistic pavements are right at your fingertips. In addition iOrnament contains an interactive pop-up book that explains mathematical backgrounds on the theory of wallpaper groups and a sampler of classical ornaments from ancient cultures.

The design of iOrnament is based on extensive experience in interactive science exhibitions. Children of all ages love it as well as scientifically or artistically interested adults.

Features include:

• full support of all 17 wallpaper groups
• artistic color palette and pen
• glow pen to add highlights
• English and German language support
• export to photos, e-mail and facebook
• adjustable color palette
• extensive collection of tips for usage
• preview of symmetries and fundamental cells
• animated drawing process
• change symmetry type on the fly
• scroll, zoom and rotate
• unlimited undo/redo
• full featured iPhone and iPad versions
• interactive tutorial on math backgrounds
• sampler of classical ornaments
• based on mathematical theory
• since version 1.2: Supports rosette symmetries

Further information, example galleries and demo videos at www.science-to-touch.com.

What's new

I worked on several user requests among them:

* Massively improved rendering quality (for extreme zoom)
* Improved Export functions
* Export A single Tile
* Better memory management

....and opening of submissions to the 'Ornament World Exhibition'

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Last changed:

Jan 15, 2013

Category:

Education

Developer:

science-to-touch

Version:

1.3

Average Rating:

5.00 (196)

Size:

34.9 MB

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