Anemone
Anemone is a sound and touch reactive digital art thing for iPad and iPhone – and one of the most organically beautiful applications I’ve made. Think lava lamp and then add tentacles. Sound and music response is via the inbuilt microphone. This makes is especially great for iPod music docks, or for those of you who have bluetooth speakers.
For me it’s more of a lava lamp style screensaver than something I spend a lot of time screen-touching. I just put on some music, adjust the microphone levels and then prop it up in the lounge room as an ambience enhancer. There’s something dynamic yet smooth and peaceful about it that really appeals to me.
I love what you have built. It reminds me a lot of a product I built in the early 90′s for Mac and windows called the groove thing which had a number of kaleidoscopic algorithmic art lives plus some primitive controls.
David,
I have been wanting to build some standalone art pieces more in the Rothko style but gradually shifting in time for my iPad but have been daunted each time I download and get into programming Xcode with apples sdk.
I wonder if you would consider sharing your framework with me? I would be happy to do some kind of license of your choosing with some kind of fee or share of (unlikely) income I might generate from my art but I really need help getting started and I am sure you have the basics I need based on what I see your apps doing.
Thanks for your beautiful work and any consideration you give these words.
Lording Vogel
Thanks for the kind comments.
Regarding frameworks, my advice is to try Cinder. Bring a good deal of patience and hit their forums for any missing info. It’s a fantastic framework, just a little young on the iOS side. Within a week you should be up and running.
Or, if you are looking for what may be the simplest route to iOS development, try the Corona SDK.
Best of luck.
It is mentioned that Anemone (perhaps) interacts with music. I have yet to see this or see any interactive points.
Hi Hal,
Anemone is touch reactive, not music reactive. Soundscape is my exploration of music reactivity.
Hal,
Your comment stayed with me and (eventually!) prompted me to add sound response. The new version is now available as an update in the App store. Thanks for your feedback.
I can only stream this app “Anemone” on my HD T.V. in the portrait mode. I can’t get it to take up the whole screen in landscape mode. I’ve tried to rotate my device. I thought it said it would stream to the T.V. To me it’s pointless to have this running on the T.V. screen in the portrait mode only taking up 25% of the screen. Im using an ipad 2 as well with the most updated OS 5.0.1. Please help.
Thank you for your time,
David
Ah, right you are David. Sorry about that. Looks like the last update broke landscape on video out. I’ll give fixing it a priority and make sure it works for you next update. Thanks for letting me know.