Category: New Apps

• October 18, 2023

  Solar Exposure Lite

  Solar Exposure Lite shows the seasonal path of the sun in the camera view of your iOS device. Use it to plan where to place a garden, whether the sunlight in a new apartment is right for you, and other questions regarding how the natural lighting changes with the time of day and seasons. Here…
• October 18, 2023

  Sacred Directions AR

  Historically, certain directions have special significance and may be considered auspicious, even sacred. For thousands of years these directions, which include north, south, east, and west – the cardinal directions, the directions in which the sun rises and sets on the summer and winter solstices, and the directions of extreme motion of the moon (lunar…
• October 11, 2023

  Uber Synth

  Uber Synth is MIDI-controllable layered polyphonic multi-timbral synthesizer that runs on iPhone, iPad, and Silicon Mac computers. The sound engine is a fully polyphonic triple-oscillator cross-modulated frequency modulated (FM) synthesizer. FM is widely regarded as the most efficient way of generating complex “organic” musical sounds. Uber Synth is divided into groups of modules selected using…
• October 11, 2023

  MIDIplay

  MIDIplay is a MIDI player for iOS and Silicon Mac computers. It supports multiple tracks and multiple channels which can be selectively turned on/off. Sliders also allow you to change the tempo and tuning. MIDIplay currently understands MIDI note on/off and sustain pedal messages. These messages can be sent to networked Audiobus 3 compatible MIDI…
• October 1, 2023

  Shape from Shading (SFSX)

  As we prepare to return to the moon and explore Mars in the coming years, join in the search for extraterrestrial artifacts using SFSX – a Mac OS X app for lunar and planetary image visualization. Shape from shading is a technique for generating 3D (actually 2.5D) terrain models from a single image. The method originally…
• September 28, 2023

  Sacred Directions

  Historically, certain directions have special significance and may be considered auspicious, even sacred. For thousands of years these directions, which include north, south, east, and west – the cardinal directions, the directions in which the sun rises and sets on the summer and winter solstices, and the directions of extreme motion of the moon (lunar…