The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week. Submit your suggestions for next week in the comments below.SKTCH 2.0 [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Hot off the virtual presses last week is the 2.0 version of this fantastic generative drawing app from CreativeApplications.Net made using openFrameworks. The app works by utilizing presets from digital artists that you can use to create various stunning compositions (especially on the iPad) using circles, meshes, and networks. If you’re feeling adventurous and inspired, you can alter the presets’ variables to create custom sketches. In the new version you get 3D mode, which means you can rotate around your sketches and change them in three dimensions. We highly recommend it. You can learn more about it here.
Control [Android]This app is already on iOS but got its Android release this week. It’s open source and allows users to dynamically create their own interfaces, which can then be used to control musical and artistic applications. It uses Open Sound Control (OSC) so users can make the interfaces as and when they need to, with the added benefit of cross-platform functionality.field [iPhone and iPad]
A colorful art app that generates gridded visuals via real-time input from your device’s camera. It translates brightness, color, and saturation into an image while also generating accompanying sound, using algorithms to create audiovisual patterns based on real light and movement captured by your camera. It’s by Austrian video artist Rainer Kohlberger, who says he draws on Art Concrete as inspiration.Pixies [Android, iPhone]
Sure, the lead singer may have looked like a local drug dealer in a stained T-shirt, but no one can deny how much this band totally alt-rocked. With this app you get free streaming of the Pixies Purple Tape, a download of their 2004 Coachella appearance and loads of other stuff including an archive of their tour performances that will show you they are so much more than a song at the end of Fight Club. All for free.Robot Unicorn Attack [Android]
The [adult swim] game comes to Android so we can all sleep soundly at night knowing that in the morning we can get up and play this on the way to work. Because nothing sets up the day like playing a side-scrolling platformer as a robotic mythical rainbow-maned horse with a horn spiraling out of its head who gallivants around collecting pixies. Trouble is, the day’ll be downhill from there on.
Hot off the virtual presses last week is the 2.0 version of this fantastic generative drawing app from CreativeApplications.Net made using openFrameworks. The app works by utilizing presets from digital artists that you can use to create various stunning compositions (especially on the iPad) using circles, meshes, and networks. If you’re feeling adventurous and inspired, you can alter the presets’ variables to create custom sketches. In the new version you get 3D mode, which means you can rotate around your sketches and change them in three dimensions. We highly recommend it. You can learn more about it here.
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A colorful art app that generates gridded visuals via real-time input from your device’s camera. It translates brightness, color, and saturation into an image while also generating accompanying sound, using algorithms to create audiovisual patterns based on real light and movement captured by your camera. It’s by Austrian video artist Rainer Kohlberger, who says he draws on Art Concrete as inspiration.Pixies [Android, iPhone]
Sure, the lead singer may have looked like a local drug dealer in a stained T-shirt, but no one can deny how much this band totally alt-rocked. With this app you get free streaming of the Pixies Purple Tape, a download of their 2004 Coachella appearance and loads of other stuff including an archive of their tour performances that will show you they are so much more than a song at the end of Fight Club. All for free.Robot Unicorn Attack [Android]
The [adult swim] game comes to Android so we can all sleep soundly at night knowing that in the morning we can get up and play this on the way to work. Because nothing sets up the day like playing a side-scrolling platformer as a robotic mythical rainbow-maned horse with a horn spiraling out of its head who gallivants around collecting pixies. Trouble is, the day’ll be downhill from there on.