Bonsai tree! 0-60 (years) in 30 seconds!

Jun 19, 2010

Bonsai is of course the Japanese art of miniaturizing trees by limiting root growth, carefully manipulating and pruning their branches to create beautiful miniature scenes.

Bonsai is an ancient venerable art and takes a lifetime to perfect!

Pah! Who has time for that?

Introducing new iBonsai 0-60 (years) in 30 seconds!

iBonsai uses unique mathematical alogarithms to grow a tiny bonsai right on your phone in 30 seconds! Each digital tree is unique as no two trees generated by the app are the same!

This app and actual bonsai couldnt be further apart – a real odd juxtaposition of values!

Real bonsai is about patience and living in the moment. It’s about flow, quality relaxation, accumulating a lifetimes worth of knowledge and being able to use this knowledge ‘thoughtlessley’ to create lasting beauty!

iBonsai won’t promote patience or let you experience ‘flow’ or lead to enlightenment (although who knows!) but it is ingenious, beautiful (perhaps not the degree real bonsai is) and quite relaxing!

iBonsai Features

• Interactive 3D view. Rotate/zoom to see your trees from all angles.

• Many different leaf types: japanese maple, flowering dogwood, and more.

• Shake to scatter leaves.

• Save snapshots of your favorite trees, then use them for your wallpaper.

• Ambient music generation algorithm produces a subtle soundtrack which never repeats!

• With the new shaping tool, enjoy interactive control over the growing process, or simply let go and watch the random growing algorithm take control.

• Set the growth speed slow to enjoy a relaxed, meditative experience, or set it fast to see a variety of trees more quickly.

• Hands-free loop feature continually grows new trees. Plug into your dock and let iBonsai paint trees all day long!

• Optional gravity-based viewing mode makes the tree appear to float in space.

• Advanced generative algorithm and random number generator give you totally unique results every time. Produce virtually infinite trees!

iBonsai allows you to create an infinite number of beautiful little itrees which can be used as wallpapers or uploaded and manipulated in other apps. This app review article includes a few of my own ibonsai creations including this evil looking favorite

A relaxed appertunity thumbs up to iBonsai an ingenious gentle relaxation & wallpaper creation app. If your a fan of gentle relaxation apps like Koi pond then this little gem will keep you entertained