Polyshadow app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Josh Yaxley
First release : 13 Oct 2015
App size: 14.02 Mb
Tired of the same connect-3 puzzles? Not satisfied with your slidy-block games? A fan of pretty colours and fancy shapes? Then the tessellations of hyperbolic space arising from imaginary quadratic fields may have the answers to your problems!
Polyshadow asks you to flatten out 3D models with your brain, and match them to their 2-dimensional projections. Ease yourself in to this new mindset with the Practice mode, or race against the clock and your own score in Timed and Zen modes. Just want to see awesome shapes? Well theres a whole gallery of them! Want to delve deeper into the concepts and mathematics behind these overly-complicated Christmas baubles? Well you can do that too!
Application designed and created by Josh Yaxley.
Inspired and aided by Herbert Gangl.
With mathematical contribution from Josh Inoue.
Made possible by the EPSRC Vacation Bursary (2014).