iOrnament: draw mandala & art2.5.13 - App Store

A single stroke has never been so expressive - iOrnament is the state-of-the art drawing tool to create stunning designs, patterns and mandalas. Creativity at your fingertips! What users say: "it's a universe of wonder", "such a fun, beautiful and relaxing app", "fantastic ArtScience offering!”, "too good to be true",...."I think there would be far less conflict in the world if everyone used iOrnament!"

- 10/10 stars on musthaveapps.de
- shown worldwide in Apple ads and in Apple retail stores
- Tabby Awards users' choice winner
- 4,7 star global rating

iOrnament combines art and science. You draw a simple stroke and iOrnament turns it into stunning patterns and mandalas according to rules of symmetry. With iOrnament everyone can be an artist. You will create fascinating ornaments and intricate designs. Fun and challenging from ages three to one-hundred for both doodlers and creative professionals. Interactive tutorial and many drawing tips included!

See how dynamic finger strokes and support for 3D Touch and Apple Pencil enhance your drawing power to become a magical experience. iOrnament supports monochromatic pens as well as rainbow colors and even drawing in realistic shiny gold.

iOrnament is an app that is designed for drawing ornamental designs that are both artistically and mathematically fascinating. You draw simple strokes and the app repeats them over and over according to the rules of the 17 crystallographic wallpaper groups. By this, fantastic symmetric patterns are created. Kaleidoscope-like pictures, tilings, complicated knots and artistic pavements are right at your fingertips. In addition, iOrnament contains an interactive pop-up book that explains mathematical backgrounds on the theory of wallpaper groups and a sampler of classical ornaments from ancient cultures.
Features include:

- full support of all 17 wallpaper groups
- artistic rainbow color palette and pens
- gold drawing feature
- support for Apple Pencil
- glow pen to add highlights
- 'design mode' combines several symmetries in one picture
- export to photos, e-mail and facebook
- transparent backgrounds
- saving, loading and recovering
- extensive collection of tips for usage
- preview of symmetries and fundamental cells
- animated drawing process
- change symmetry type on the fly
- scroll, zoom and rotate
- unlimited undo/redo
- full featured iPhone and iPad versions
- interactive tutorial on math backgrounds
- sampler of classical ornaments
- based on mathematical theory
- supports rosette symmetries
- integration of ornament world exhibition

Via In-App Purchase:

- 3D ornaments on spheres
- Escheresque color symmetries
- layers and brushes
- background colors and textures
- advanced nib pens
- geometry mode to draw straight lines and circles

Further information, example galleries and demo videos at www.science-to-touch.com and https://www.instagram.com/iornamentapp.

Version History Fixes a Problem with iPhone SE2020 2.5.13 07/17/2021 Several improvements for newer iOS devices 2.5.12 04/08/2021 Easter Egg drawing is back!!! Create and share virtual eggs.
Use iOrnament as stress reliever and as a great activity with your kids!
Plus minor fixes. 2.5.11 03/20/2020 Easter Egg drawing is back!!! Create and share virtual eggs.
Use iOrnament as stress reliever and as a great activity with your kids! 2.5.10 03/19/2020 Improved interoperability with iOrnament Pro 2.5.9 02/22/2020 Fixes a critical bug on iPhone 2.5.8 02/20/2020 Interoperability with the new iOrnament Pro 2.5.7 02/19/2020 Fixes an export problem that occurred on some iPad Airs 2.5.6 11/28/2019 Resolution enhancements for the new iPad Air 2.5.5 07/09/2019 Stability and UI improvements....
...and a special Easter surprise 2.5.2 03/31/2019 Minor adaptions 2.5.1 12/20/2018 Stability improvements 2.5 12/19/2018 This version fixes an issue with older devices.
What happened before:
- responsive gold textures
- color gradients
- support for the new iPad 2.4 11/20/2018 Version optimised for the new iPad Pro.
Faster Rendering. Better memory management.
Double Tap on Pencil for post editing of strokes. 2.3.2 11/07/2018 – Gold Textures: they add a realistic gold finish to your creations
– Local Symmetries: to create magically complex patterns and mandalas (iPhone&iPad)
– Color Palettes: for more drawing possibilities
– Pen Presets: to give easy access to interesting settings 2.3.1 08/22/2018 There are several new features in this version:
– Local Symmetries: to create magically complex patterns and mandalas
– Gold Textures: they add a realistic gold finish to your creations
– Color Palettes: for more drawing possibilities
– Pen Presets: to give easy access to interesting settings 2.3 08/13/2018 A minor fix for submitting ornaments to the world exhibition.

In case you missed it–here is what happened since 2.0:
• Full size drawing space on iPhone X.
• highly advanced and configurable Apple Pencil support
• dynamic stroke options for colours, size, opacity
• high resolution support
• link to the iOrnament Crafter App for creating 3D models
• design mode to overlay several symmetries
• advanced calligraphy support 2.2 12/17/2017 Full size drawing space on iPhone X.
Improvements for iOS 11. Fix of observed time lag.

In case you missed it–here is what happened since 2.0:
• highly advanced and configurable Apple Pencil support
• dynamic stroke options for colours, size, opacity
• high resolution support
• link to the iOrnament Crafter App for creating 3D models
• design mode to overlay several symmetries
• advanced calligraphy support 2.1.1 11/30/2017 Many improvements in Version 2.1
• Design Mode to overlay several symmetry types
• Extended export functionality
• Resolution boost for iPad Pro
• Interconnection with other apps
• Export to the iOrnament Crafter App
• Support for portrait orientation
• Geometry Mode to draw straight lines and circles (in pro upgrade)
• Line smoothing (in pro upgrade)
• New calligraphy pens (in pro upgrade)
• Advanced nib control (in pro upgrade) 2.1.0 04/27/2017 Version 2.0 of iOrnament is major step forward. Hightlighs are:
* Higher internal resolution
* Support for Apple Pencil and 3D Touch
* Dynamic strokes (also without pencil)
* More storage slots
* Completely reworked drawing algorithms
* Full advantage of iOS 9 advanced touch features

And for Pro Upgrade
* Background colors
* Export of transparent layers

To summarize: "A single stroke has never been that expressive" 2.0.2 05/18/2016 Small fixes and improvements in button logics
and color selection. 1.5.2 02/17/2014 This version added a new type of ornaments: Hyperbolic ornaments also known ale Circle Limits in the Art off M.C.Escher.

Also several iOS 7 Compatibility issues were resolved. 1.5.1 02/11/2014 Fixed a critical bug (apologies to all those users that wre effected by this inconvenience) 1.4.4 08/14/2013 WARNING: There slipped in a stability bug in this version.
(It turned out only after it was available on the app store).
it will be fixed in a few days from now with version 1.4.4.
The app may crash after the startup screen. 1.4.3 08/12/2013 Hinting System for Newcomers
Stability improvements
Improved Export Functionality 1.4.2 07/10/2013