iOrnament Pro – art, fun, calm 4+
Create geometry art & mandalas
science-to-touch
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPad Screenshots
Description
Happy Easter! This version contains a limited time egg crafting special in the Export Menu
iOrnament Pro combines beauty, structure and creativity.
You create, you play…you are blown away by your own designs.
A colourful and sparkling treat for digital creatives!
Creating stunning ornamental patterns and mandalas are the focus of this App.
The first steps in iOrnament Pro are as easy as moving your finger over the screen...they can lead to an amazing creative journey... leading to beautiful pieces of art. The fun is in the discovery!
No matter whether you are a casual doodler, a design professional, a child, a craftsperson, or just seeking for a relaxing soothing drawing experience, iOrnament will make your creative juices flow and unleash your inner artist. Get your fingers and pencil ready for a new drawing experience!
Main features:
While you draw on the iPad iOrnament Pro repeats your strokes by rules of symmetry. Highly expressive pens, effects like gold, silver or glitter create a rich variety of styles. Whether you go for highly artistic calligraphy, strict geometric constructions, or just casual doodling iOrnament offers a suitable tool set to create extraordinary designs.
For the Artist
Full support of all possible symmetry patterns and highly expressive pens allow for the creation of stunning patterns. The possibility of image import brings real world elements into the world of pattern creation. Realistic effect pens, precise brushes seamless patterns and the mathematically precise symmetries make it possible to create crisp geometric drawings and glamorous jewellery likewise.
For kids of all ages
First of all: its fun! Starting at the age of four kids can dive into joyful and creative play for hours. Playing in iOrnament is a creative and satisfying experience starting from the very first stroke. Vivid color palettes, glitter, gold, mandalas, varieties of shapes, and much more offer an endless playground of discovery. And while playing children learn basics about the maths of symmetry.
For meditation
Drawing in iOrnament connects your left and the right brain: the creative and the structural. This leads to a very calming and relaxing drawing experience with even therapeutic effects. It is like playing a flute in a big room with a great echo. You create something, it comes back from all directions and you react to your own creations. Ornamental structures and symmetries can be helpful to focus and relax at the same time.
For teaching
iOrnament gives access to all mathematical possible planar ornament groups. And even spherical and hyperbolic symmetries. It contains an interactive tutorial explaining the maths behind it and can be used to trigger an exciting journey in the border of art and maths. Suitable for both maths and art classes.
For experimenting
Life is exploration and the best way of learning is playing. The possibilities of iOrnament are endless. Go on your own creative journey and find your own unique way of using this app.
Some feature highlights:
– glitter and gold pens and brushes
– advanced color support
– photorealistic textures
– hyperrealistic sparkles
– image import
– video and time lapse export
– advanced layer functions
– on board help center
– stroke and color post-editing
– many versatile stroke properties
– clean and well-structured UI
– embossing effect
– dynamic responsive pens
– patterns on the sphere
– local mandala symmetries
– Escheresque color symmetries
– calligraphy pens and brushes
– mesmerising geometric deformations
– 3D paper models via the iOrnament Crafter
The predecessor App iOrnament was featured in Apple Retail Stores and used by Apple for graphics on their website and at the WWDC.
What’s New
Version 2.0.3
Contains a Easter Special in the export menu
Ratings and Reviews
Hidden gem with a few interesting flaws
Juergen, you must have spent so long making this app 😃More complex than Amaziograph. More useful than FractalScapes and Pattern Artist
The best thing is being able to save an accurate tile as well as a full view. The worst a rather convoluted and unintuitive UI which took a few hours to understand
If you are able to persevere and learn the quirks it's astonishing. No really. The app is full of easter eggs
I would make the following observations.
No fill bucket. Serious omission.
Dreadful color implementation - at least give me a color wheel on the edit page I can use. There's only the brightness slider. If i want the other sliders i have to click another palette. Normal color wheel please
No close file and open a blank new one. At least i haven't discovered it. Come on Juergen. I'm not being too harsh on you because in spite of it all i'm giving 5 stars. I certainly could not have made an app like this. Nevertheless, these are serious omissions
Please make it possible to export the tile and the view in one operation.
I haven't found it yet but is there a way of flipping the view to the full tile? Im really hoping it's there because this would be very useful. It would be great to work on a tile with the reflections out of view
All in all amazing app. And many grateful thanks for not being a subscription
Update. I have found the way of saving and opening
Developer Response ,
Hi Jukelox. Thanks for this great review and thanks for the nice words on iOrnament. I agree to several (not all ;-) ) of the critical comments. I would love to get in touch with you directly for exchange on UI issues und functionality. Can you contact me via the science-to-touch.com website. Would be great. Have a great day Jürgen
Amazing - One of the best art and design apps
iOrnament Pro is quite simply one of the most powerful apps in the App Store for visual design. I have used iOrnament professionally for years and I feel that I haven’t begun to tap into its full potential yet. It is great for fun and relaxing doodling, but also has the depth and sophistication to be a very high end design tool. iOrnament Pro is one of the few apps that continues to surprise me with its capabilities, making it a perennial favourite. Very highly recommended.
Awesome…but!
Great App. However it frequently overheats and jams. I use the shape modifiers almost exclusively but after about 20 mins of using it through all the pattern conventions it just freezes doesn’t allow zoom in and then you cannot delete a piece and start again. Only solution is to delete the App and download again. But as I say great App hours of fun and productivity if only it didn’t crash all the time. And more recently after closing down the iPad when I next pick it up the app freezes the tool bars half in half out of the screen and nothing can be done to gain access to any of the tools. Once again only solution is to delete the app and reinstall but this is a daily encounter.
Developer Response ,
Hi gerdoms, there will soon be a new version that fixes several of the problems you mention. Please contact me directly via the science-to-touch website. Then I can put you on teh beta tester list and you have access to the new version already.
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EDIT: I tried to react to your email but by response bounces. Can you try once more to answer with a different e-mail address, Sorry for the inconvenience (this seems to be the only channel how I can reach you)
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Information
- Provider
- Juergen Richter-Gebert
- Size
- 197 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Jürgen Richter-Gebert
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Combo Upgrade £9.99
- Ultra £4.99
- Premium £6.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.