How to create stunning ornaments on iPhone, iPad or computer

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

IOrnament and Silk let you draw fantastic patterns and forget about all the problems.

IOrnament allows you to easily create "creative geometry" - symmetrical patterns and mandalas.

I try to combine modern visualization techniques and games to demonstrate that math can be beautiful and fun.

Jürgen Richter-Gebert creator of iOrnament, professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich

You can draw in iOrnament with your finger or Apple Pencil. The process is pleasant, reminiscent of meditation: it calms, helps relieve stress.

The controls in iOrnament are intuitively simple and straightforward. There is no support for the Russian language, but the instructions in English (or German) can be easily understood.

To create your own ornament, you need to select a color from the palette (you can change it at any time), adjust its saturation, brightness, as well as the size, transparency and blur of the line.

Optionally, you can change the background color, the shape of the lines, make them discontinuous or dotted, add highlights. If you don't like the drawing, send it to the basket.

The app has templates for 17 classic ornaments. Each of them is described in detail in a special section.

The created patterns can be shared on social networks, sent by e-mail, and also saved in a photo album.

This is how patterns are created with Apple Pencil.

This app has a web-based alternative -. Here you can adjust rotational symmetry (from 1 to 6 times), mix colors, adjust the movement of the spirals and their mirroring. The process of creating space drawings with the mouse is mesmerizing.

Silk is also available on mobile devices.