Vote for Zio in 2009 Best App Ever Awards!

My iPhone app Zio is a finalist in the Best App Ever awards, you can vote here:-

Vote for
Zio
in
Best Artistic Expression App

There are also handy links to share on Twitter/Facebook etc to help with public voting.
http://bestappever.com/v/aeap/338522836

I’d be grateful if you can help Zio get some recognition

On the same note, if you have downloaded Zio and like it, It would be great for me and the app if you could rate it on iTunes.  I, along with many other developers suffer from the curse of the 1 star rating syndrome – whereby people who delete the app are asked to rate it, and usually it’s negative – as opposed to the many thousands of happy customers who have downloaded it but because they aren’t asked/cornered into rating the app, they never do.  This creates a very unbalanced rating on iTunes and is a flaw that Apple need to look at.

Also, if you have the time and something good to say about Zio (or fair critique) it would be great if you could post a review too!  Thanks!

On other things, I’m currently in New York developing an exciting movie project about the Kabbalah, more on this soon.  I’m also talking with a publicist here about promoting/marketing Zio – all very exciting possibilities, again more on this soon.

Over and out for now, Happy new year everyone,

Glenn.

Zio available on App Store

An interactive generative art visualizer from award winning computer animator and software designer Glenn Marshall.

Explore and interact with an endlessly generating world of organic visuals.

- 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.

Zio Studio
Get the Zio Studio upgrade (via In App Purchase) and unlock the full creative power of the Zio system (interface examples in screenshots).

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.

Join the user forums, create galleries, enter competitions,
and get further help mastering the art of Zio.

Think Zen. Think Bio.

Zio Beta Menus & Guide

Happy Halloween, and have a look at Zio which I’ve finally ‘finished’.  It’s just about to go to the beta testers, and then I’ll double check everything once more, build in the in-app purchase function to unlock the full program (it will come as a free app with a couple of presets for playback only), and then submit it to the App Store next week.  It will be for iPhone and iPod touch OS 3.0 and later, and will be around $5 to buy.

Below is the instruction guide which will be in a scrollable window, so forgive the long jpeg.

Zio Beta Testers Needed

My iPhone application Zio is near completion and I should have a Beta ready for next week.

I was planning on using ibetatest.com, but thought I’d throw out the line here to see if anyone would be interested in helping me.  The app needs tested on all devices, iPod touch, iPhone 3G, 3GS etc, and played with a lot for any bugs or suggestions on improvements, and everything possible to help get it past the Apple review process.

If you’re interested either drop me a line or goto the Zio forum I’ve specially created for Beta testing and register there.  Once the Beta is ready you’ll receive further instructions on how to obtain an ad hoc version.

The forum will also be home to users of Zio to talk and discuss about the program and create their own galleries of Zio art.

So hopefully if I can get a few testers I wont need to use ibetatest.com, and in return I can give you a free version of the app, a credit, and hopefully work together again on any future projects I might have.

Zio Art

Some demo screens from my upcoming iPhone application, Zio.

The graphic/algorithmic engine is finished, and now has particle motion.

I’m in the middle of rebuilding the interface before moving onto audio reaction.  Unfortunately there’s no way of ‘listening’ to audio coming from your iPhone – this is a restriction Apple has placed on the device.  So audio reaction will have to be based on music/audio playing in your room or nearby.  I haven’t done any tests yet but hopefully it should be workable.  However, this just a gimmicky thing in my opinion, Zio is primarily an interactive, meditative art program, which can be viewed with any kind of music whether it’s in literal sync to the amplitudes of the audio or not.

Overall I’m only a couple of weeks away from completion, then it will go for beta testing before finally being submitted to the app store, which might take another week or so.  I’m hoping to have it all done and available for download by end of October.