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App Review: Penki light painting for iOS
Ah yes, the future! It's nice when it arrives on your front doorstep... or on your iPod. It's even nicer when you ask for something and then you get it: a few months back, we drooled over Dentsu London's light extrusion tech demo and humbly demanded its App Store release. Now, app in hand, we're busy running around our houses trying to become some sort of half-baked Jenny Holzer. It's called Penki, and it takes your text / symbol input and turns it into 3D-flavored imagery via long-exposure photography. Sounds bodacious, right? But, as we all know, the future isn't perfect -- read on for the full account of our shiny journey into the third dimension. %Gallery-108680%
iPad light painting adds geeky bling to your boring real-world space
There are lots of contenders for the killer app that'll take the iPad to the next level, and we think light extrusion is currently near the top of the heap. Dentsu London has paired accelerometer-based software with long exposure/stop-motion photographs to take 3D renderings into real space, with a result that reminds us of the Graffiti Research Lab. Sure, you could do this on an iPod touch, but it's that real-world iPad bigness that makes it awesome -- one of those moments that makes you sit back and say dang, future, you're here! We can't wait for this to make its way into the App Store -- and our nieces' Facebook albums -- ASAP. Crazy light painting video after the jump.
