If you liked Johnny Chung Lee\’s Wii headtracking tricks you will love iHologram, a stunning iPhone app that makes the screen look like a window to a real, parallel dimension. While it seems like magic, it uses anamorphosis, a very simple painting technique that has been used by old masters since the 15th century, mixed with the technology in the JesusPhone.
Created by David O\’Reilly, iHologram combines anamorphosis and the iPhone\’s gyroscopes to achieve this awesome visual magic trick. Anamorphosis is a way to draw things distorted so, while watched at a certain angle, they pop out of the 2D surface as if they were real. |
David\’s application assumes a constant viewing angle of 35 to 45 degrees, which is the usual angle when anyone watches the iPhone screen. Knowing that angle, the application calculates the orientation of the screen relative to the viewer using the iPhone\’s motion sensors, so when you turn it around, the 3D world perspective gets skewed accordingly. |
As you can see in the video, the effect is almost perfect, with the character popping out of the screen and the world he\’s walking on receding into a deep space. [Ismashphone] |
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Hi,
Not sure if this is or is not the \’norm\’ but I just received my brand new iPhone here in the UK and once it had been activated on iTunes I found that the home screen (the screen you can personalise with a photo) already had a photo set against it !!!!
It would appear that someone on the production line was having a bit of fun – has anyone else found this ?
These are the photo\’s:
Most of us remember Nate True’s “Dock†application. It added a small sunspot on the bottom right corner of the screen, and when tapped and slid towards the center, would open a list of applications that could be opened. Well, the same application has been ported to 2.0; however, it’s been totally redesigned. More info and screenshots inside.
Now, installing the application adds a dull bar of light along the bottom of the screen. Tap this a drag up to display your categories. The categories are Media, Phone, Uncategorized, Utilities, and Work. Scroll your finger side to side to select a Category, and the slide your finger further up to see the apps in that category. Scroll to select an application, and release your finger to open that application. Also new to this version, is an Dock Prefs application. This lets you configure Dock to your liking. This includes disabling the dock, show line glow, enable speed dial, categorize apps, and to disable the dock for certain apps. This is defiinitely an improvement from the last 1.1.4 version.
Here are some screenshots: |
To download Dock, simply open Cydia and let it refresh. It’ll be under the changes tab. |
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So I noticed this Apple logo glow mod on multiple sites over the weekend. Basically some folks over at iPhones.ru replaced the Apple logo in the rear casing of the iPhone to glow while the screen is active. Every site so far that has covered it has been filled with ZOMGZ FAKE!! Hoew waz it donez? OMG. Well it really isn\’t all that difficult. It also is a lot cheaper to do than the $300 claimed by iPhones.ru.
\nTo sum it up he first created an Apple logo out of plexiglass to replace the metal one in the stock iphone case. This was done with a dremel tool and lots of polishing. |
\nTo light up the Apple logo some white LEDs from a broken iPhone screen were used although one could probably some comparable LEDs out there that would function just fine for the purpose. |
\nLastly soldering Croiman soldered the LEDs to the iPhone screen power function so that the Apple Logo lights up when the iPhone\’s screen is lit. |
\nThe end result looks very nice and is something any super geek Apple fanboy would probably want. Check out more pictures and a video below. For more detailed instuctions on how this project was complete back in April please refer to the original posting. |
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