Surfaces in Space
Graphics & Design
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Immerse yourself and explore a variety of surface geometries
A 3D viewer for mathematical surfaces. Visualize and interact with parametric shapes including spheres, tori, Klein bottles, Möbius strips, and more.
Features:
- An expanding catalogue of both vertex-based, tessellated surfaces, and a physical objects category
- Rotate, zoom, and pan with (multi-)touch gestures
- Auto-rotate along an axis, adjust speed with a dismissible slider
- Adjustable tessellation detail via a dismissible slider
- Adjustable tessellation fill: solid or wireframe
- Adjustable vertex primitives: points, lines, triangles
- Adjust point size with a dismissible slider
- Optional ripple effect on vertex-based surfaces
- Optional rotating light for most surfaces
- Customizable background color, background image
- Save 10-bit snapshots
- Restore previous session, start fresh, or randomize launch
- Import .stl (STL) or .obj (OBJ) files for viewing
- choose culling mode: none, back, or front
- spatial environments: standard / default, Milky Way panorama, a black hole, and
- free camera mode: toggle on/off in settings to freely move camera around environment
Ratings & Reviews
- Soap bubble! Check out the physically-informed rendering of a bubble under the Physical Objects category. It will be invisible on a black background!
- A new park background, which pairs well with the soap bubble. Check it out in the Environments tab!
- Improved meshing for vertex-based (VB) surfaces; each VB surface now has its own triangulation, which is computed on-device and cached for quick re-use. The vertices of the VB surfaces are still always recomputed, on-device, every time. Please note: the cached triangulations do cost some user-storage, which will appear under your iOS Settings, "Documents & Data" for this app; the triangulations are more costly to generate on-demand, hence my decision to cache them on-device.
- Significant restructuring behind the scenes, including improved concurrency and staging the way for upcoming updates (such as a dedicated render thread -- stay tuned!).
The developer, Colin Ford, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Colin Ford
- Size
- 90.2 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.4 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Colin Ford
