Fluid Automata

Description

Fluid Automata is an interactive visual art program that lets you manipulate a fluid system that is made up of colors, a photo, or a live stream of video from your front or back camera. By using one or multiple touches you control the direction and energy of the fluids. It's highly addictive and it's easy to make beautiful visualizations with Fluid Automata. See http://www.fluidautomata.com for more information and links to a gallery.

Indra and Arlo (ages 6 and 3) like it. Watch the video here: http://vimeo.com/31309323

Featured on www.creativeapplications.net and www.onedayoneapp.com.

"love this app!!!" - Film Fr3ak
"I honestly love it. The more I play, the more curious I get." - ipadpunk.com


Fluid Automata is a Universal Binary. It has been tested on iPad 2, iPad 1, and iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2 and 4.3. Fluid Automata uses GLSL shaders for super responsive visuals. It does *not* work on the iPhone 3GS (since the 3GS doesn't support the custom graphics pipeline via GLSL shaders.) There is no camera support on iPad 1.

Remember that you can toggle the sliders on and off by double tapping the screen quickly in one place. This is especially important for iPhone and iTouch users because of the limited screen size.

Some videos showing the use of Fluid Automata and a recent performance that used Fluid Automata for visuals can be found at my vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/angusforbes

Features:

- Save screenshots to 768x1024 photo
- Use front or back camera for live video manipulation
- Load in a photo for photo manipulation
- Choose from a variety of colored noise textures
- Toggle the controls off for full-screen mode
- Toggle them on to fine tune the colors or the fluid dynamics
- Lots of presets included to make it easy to explore different types of turbulence and flow with different colors
- Children will find it entertaining-- it's a good way to encourage them to be creative without making a mess
- Supports multiple touch gestures for zooming and panning

Presets include:

- Tar Pit (high viscosity, low saturation)
- Gumball (high saturation, high contrast)
- Milky Way (high angularity, low saturation, makes nice galaxy-like structures)
- Jupiter's Moons (rich, moody color scheme)
- Cubism (low forward momentum creates abstract segmentation)
- Ice Cream Cake (complex, vibrant color scheme)
- Kaleidoscope (high angularity, fluctuating rainbow colors)
- Watercolors (complex, fine color scheme, very beautiful, can get quite turbulent)
- Nebulae (subtle florescent colors, low contrast)
- Ice Cracks (low forward momentum and low angularity makes a cool effect)
- Infrared (subtle effect, looks good on certain photographs)
- Rainbow Sherbet (looks like melting sherbet)
- Propaganda (kind of a posterizing effect, looks good on some photographs)

Check out http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/a.forbes/blog for news, or visit http://www.fluidautomata.com for more screenshots videos, and other materials.