New free iPhone app: Immersive

Trapcode Immersive uses the magnetometer (digital compass) and the accelerometer to figure out how the device is held and then renders a corresponding view from a panorama. It is like a window to another world in your hands!

The app contains seven panoramas of different landscapes. One idea we have for future versions is to enable loading a panorama from the photo library on the device (if there is interest in such a feature). Other possible uses could be for previewing a hotel reservation, real estate or whenever an immersive view of an environment is needed.

Since the app needs a compass it works with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad (runs as an iPhone app).

Get it FREE in the App Store

Vortex.A - generative art for iPad / iPhone / iPod

Vortex.A - touch-interactive generative art. I am experimenting with fluid dynamics: how liquids and gases behave - a classically difficult problem in physics/maths. Most agree that fluid dynamics is described by the Navier-Stokes differential equations. There is no known all-case solution for the equations, but there are solutions for specific cases and approximative methods to find numerical solutions.

I'm experimenting with my own approach and it is making some pretty promising animations. This app visualizes the flow by emitting particles where you touch the screen (multi-touch works) and the fluid itself is also affected by touch. The lines are so called "pathlines" that trace the particles' paths over time.

I'm polishing the technology and hoping to bring it to VFX/motion graphics artists as a tool for fluid dynamics animations in the future.

The price is 99 cents and it's available in AppStore.

Check out CreativeApplications.net's article, contains video! Or proceed to view video on Vimeo. Or, if you have flash, check out the video below (note that this video is from iPhone, on iPad it looks different)