Somewhere, a monk is weeping.
This app is called iOrnament, designed by a math professor and incredibly fun to play with! Well worth buying, I make designs with it every day and it has a lot of fascinating options and effects. Here’s his trailer for how to use it. He also made another app called iOCrafter that creates printable patterns you can assemble. Who doesn’t need a stack of Platonic solids to brighten up your space?
The iOrnament App grew out of a sequence of related programs that were developed over the past 30 years. The oldest ancestor of iOrnament is a program “Ornament” that was written by the author and presented at the symmetry exhibition in Darmstadt 1986. The program allowed to draw black and white wallpaper pictures at that time on an Atari computer. Inspired by this similar programs were written that ran in various Mathematics exhibitions among them the exhibition ix-quadrat at TU Munich and the German Museum in Munich. The amazing fact about these kind of programs is that everyone starting from a three year old child to an highly intellectual adult can at the same time be creative, have fun with them and learn something about mathematical structures.
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