Cosmic Top - Cool Bear Studios LLC

Cosmic Top Cool Bear Studios LLC Genre: Entertainment Price: $1.99 Release Date: December 17, 2010

***** 5/5 Outstanding! "Cosmic Top is the first sheer toy I’ve downloaded for my iPad, and I love it… I am sure this app is going to show up, sooner or later, in a TV show or movie." - John Martellaro, the Mac Observer Swipe it, swirl it, twist it, twirl it… It's a top, but not like any from this world… It's cosmic! Cosmic Top is a virtual toy, a 3D audiovisual physics simulation of a spinning, wobbling, and sometimes morphing top. Seeming to float among stars, the top can take on unlimited shapes and sounds which appear to glow and hum from within your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. You have full control of the top and can experience it from all angles in three dimensions simply by rotating your device around in real space. Simple and intuitive multi-touch gestures give you full control. * Swipe through the top's center to produce a tumbling spin * Swipe around its center to generate a kaleidoscopic spin * Hold with one or more fingers to brake and stop it * Hold and swipe at the same time for a special spin mode that gets the top spinning on its axis. Once in special spin, move a single touch to change the direction of the axis * Pinch in to see a smaller, quieter top or pinch out to experience a bright, fullscreen light show * Tap to the left or right to navigate among all the unique and colorful tops Basic and easy to use settings appear with a tap of an arrow icon. While the settings are displayed, you can still interact with the top. * Turn off the sound to listen to your iPod music * Turn gravity on to see it nod and precess like a top in the real world * Turn the brake off and watch it get cosmic by rotating endlessly like a space station, satellite, or ufo * Lock the view to experience a different perspective with the stars and gravity's direction fixed within the display * And best of all, a tap of the cosmic button will randomly create a new cosmos of tops In no time, the magic of its gyroscopic and kaleidoscopic wheeling, whirring, and whirling will hypnotize you. Features * Realistic physics simulation via Euler's equations for rotating bodies * 3D graphics and audio * Simple and intuitive multi-touch control with up to 11 active touches on iPad, 5 on iPhone and iPod touch * Uses retina display and gyroscope, if available * Optimized for high animation frame rate for each iOS device * Unlimited shapes and sounds generated from randomized mathematical functions providing lots of replay value * Fun for both young and old Cosmic Top is an entertaining way to show off your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. We hope you enjoy it. "When you get it spinning really fast, the sounds get crazy excellent!" - Billy P. Sassafras, 10-Year-Old App Enthusiast "Wow! It's like, full of stars. The audiovisual experience is psychedelic… cool…" - Dr. David Bowman, Hip Fictional Character "It is neat to watch the polhode roll without slipping on the herpolhode." - Louis Poinsot, French Mechanics Nerd Please check out our website for video of the tops in action... Cool Bear Studios LLC

Source: iTunes Store: Top Grossing iPad Apps