High quality interactive OpenGLES 3D Simulation of the Antikythera Mechanism!
About Antikythera Simulation
Antikythera Simulation is an education app developed by Fiv Asim.
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Antikythera Simulation has been downloaded 23 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times.
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Antikythera Simulation is rated 3.40 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 210 ratings.
App Information
Antikythera Simulation is FREE to download. The APK download size is 533.62 kB. The latest version available is 0.97. The last update was on July 6, 2012.
Technical Requirements
Antikythera Simulation requires Android 1.6+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play January 2011.
Description
The Antikythera Mechanism is a small device constructed in ancient Greece around 150BC and it was mainly used for accurate astronomical measurements. It's complexity -comparable to that of a 19th century swiss clock- is admired by historians and scientists and it is often called as "mankind's first computer".
"Antikythera Simulation" is an open source, interactive 3D simulation drawn with OpenGLES of the 2 best known models of the Antikythera Mechanism as developed by scientists, and in the same time a showcase of the capabilities of your android powered handset! These versions are preliminary ones, without much attention to the relative gear diameters or vertical positions. However, the tooth count of the gears and the operation are accurate.
Make yourself familiar with your own history and the astonishing sophistication of this ancient device while pushing your android's Graphics Processing Unit to the edge! Touch-pan, rotate and pinch zoom in the 3D model and let hardware acceleration do the rest. Check how many frames per second your android can render. It looks best on high-end devices. Tablets supported. There is also a brief explanation and history note in the "about" section.
* No permissions required, open-source, no ads, totally free and hopefully bug-free :)
You may find the project's source code at github: https://github.com/fivasim/Antikythera-Simulation
Thanks!!!
version 0.97: * Supported by all android versions above 1.6. (Multitouch not available in android < 2.0) * Open source * Apps2SD * Hardware acceleration with OpenGLES * Minimal memory usage
Recent changes: -Added a button to easily switch between pan and rotate modes. -Open-sourced the project. You may find the source code at github (direct link in app description)
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I'm a bit late to the party, but great stuff, and thanks for making it open source. Cool
★★★★☆Eli Hekel· Feb 27, 2015
Nice work, needs an update, though I've been doing study into the Mechanism for my own computer science research, and I found the AMRP's new 2012 model very appealing, with proposed planetary gear trains as well. I'd love if you did an update, but since it's open source, I might do it myself over the summer if you don't. Thanks for your work.
★★★★★Bubble Chicken· Nov 23, 2017
This is based on the Antikythera Mechanism for those of you who don't know.
★★★★★A Google User· Feb 26, 2013
Amazingly complex This is pretty cool! It's a simple Swiss clock basically. But just the fact that you're looking into the working mechanisms of a watch is a great opportunity. It is a perfect example of "Could this device be designed without a designer?" As in "How could the world be created without a Creator?" Seriously, the gears didn't just magically appear like that. They were designed by someone. Makes u think, doesn't it? HINT atheistic peoplez HINT!
★★★★★Leslie Toth· Jul 25, 2016
Antikythera An absolutely brilliant app the mechanism looks like it was something out of the 20th century 19th at least, but as time goes on more is found out about it one of the hands actually institutes phases of the moon, so it is a celestial timepiece of grand design. 5 stars for the mechanism and for the application so download it and check it out for yourself and tell me that it's not one of the most fascinating things you've seen the app itself is brilliantly executed.👍
★☆☆☆☆Philip Royd· Sep 24, 2019
Bleh. I wanted to be able to read and understand the mechanism, not to just see how it works. The diagrams are in Greek, which is a language I don't read.
★☆☆☆☆Wendyshorty Ballam· Sep 23, 2018
Uppish please put when you turn the minute hand
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