App Detail » Zio

What's New

- Crash fix
- Revised Help Screens (crash related).

App Description

An interactive generative art visualizer - explore and interact with an endlessly generating world of organic, audio reactive visuals.

** 2009 Best App Ever Awards finalist **
www.148apps.com

** 15 Best and Must Have iPhone Apps of 2009 **
www.creativeapplications.net

** "Download this amazing app and have an eyegasm" **
www.synthtopia.com

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- Use drag and pinch to pan, move and rotate through space.
- Pause / play, save snaphots to your photo library.
- Switch on audio reactive visuals (for devices with mic only).
- Comes with 3 unique preset Zio worlds.
- Shake to shuffle between presets.

Using the same Zio animation technology, Glenn collaborated with Peter Gabriel to create The Nest That Sailed The Sky music video which won at Prix Ars Electronica 2009, one of the biggest computer arts festivals in the world.
http://www.vimeo.com/3245120

Zio Studio
With the Zio Studio toolset you can customize or design from scratch your own unique interactive visualizations and digital artworks. Featuring 60+ editable parameters and 5 interface screens, you can alter and experiment with just about everything.

- Size, shape and growth of branches.
- Particle motion and dynamics.
- Colours, shading and special effects.
- Audio reaction settings for individual graphics.
- Alter the underlying math algorithms.
- Camera tracking and motion.
- Watch Zio react in real time as you make changes.
- 10 user preset slots to save your creations.
- Full visual instruction and help guide built in.


Zio is a fusion of science, technology, art, nature, mathematics and philosophy. Use it for the experience you want.

- A zen garden in your pocket.
- A sophisticated eco-graphic design tool for still art.
- An interactive meditation and therapeutic ‘aquarium’.
- An audio reactive bio-world.
- A performance instrument for organic visuals.
- An endlessly generating music video for your iPod library.

Think Zen. Think Bio.

*** 1.1 Update features ***

**IMPORTANT NOTICE** - There seems to be crashing issues with the new update adversely affecting older devices due to iOS 4 extra memory demands - I've just been working to resolve this and the problem seems to be fixed - Look out for another update in about a week!

- Full Zio app (including all features) now a single free app.

- 10 predesigned visualizer presets.

- ‘Trails’ render mode, generates motion trails of entire graphic scene.

- ‘Paint’ render mode, redraws continually over graphic scene, in effect becoming an interactive, animated painting tool.

- Randomizer function – Completely randomizes all the settings to quicky and easily generate new Zio visualizations.

- Automatic timer to randomly shuffle through presets.

- External VGA projection support (iPhone 4/iPad VGA adapter compatible, requires restart of app for auto detection of external screen).

- iAds supported (disables after 3 min approx, future updates will include purchase option to disable completely).

- Autolock override.

App Changes

• June 24, 2011 New version 1.2