3D Tulip Live Wallpaper

We are proud to announce our new floral live wallpaper – 3D Tulip. Following the best traditions of our popular 3D Rose live wallpaper this one presents you a view of tulip flower surrounded by neighbors in the field. The flowers gracefully sway on the wind and the view slowly rotates giving you a fully 3D overview of the scene. Live wallpaper reacts to gestures, rotating the scene in the direction of your swipes and homepage changes.

Full version of live wallpaper offers you a choice of 8 flower colors, including two-colored ones. Free version is limited to one color, it has only wind configuration.

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WebGL 2 fur simulation

WebGL 2 recently became available in latest Firefox and Chrome so it was tempting to try out some of its new features. One of the most important WebGL 2 (and OpenGL ES 3.0, which it is based upon) features is instanced rendering. This feature reduces draw calls overhead by drawing the same geometry multiple times with altered transformations. It was supported in certain implementations of WebGL 1 too but required a certain extension. Most useful for foliage and particles, this technique is also quite often used to simulate fur.

Porting Android live wallpaper to WebGL

Now WebGL works in almost any browser, including mobile ones so it was tempting to try it out. We have experience in creating Android apps using OpenGL ES 2.0. We have released quite a lot of 3D live wallpapers with rich 3D graphics. They are implemented in Java + OpenGL ES 2.0 without using third-party game engines (such as Unity) or high-level frameworks (such as libGDX). This makes our apps lightweight and well-optimized. And since WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 process of porting live wallpaper to run in browser is quite straightforward.

Developer's notes V. Custom watch faces for Android Wear with OpenGL ES 2.0

As soon as Google announced possibility to create custom watch faces with new Android 5.0 for Android Wear, we’ve ordered brand new ASUS ZenWatch to develop watch face (I believe nothing can beat quality of this device for its price). We decided not to port any of existing live wallpapers to Android Wear but to create some completely new scene for it. This resulted in creating Axiom Watch Faces app which consists of 5 digital watch faces, implemented in 3D with OpenGL ES 2.0.

Oleksandr Popov Live Wallpapers.

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