The Elements: A Visual Exploration for the iPad can be best described as a book like no other. An electronic rendering of Theodore Gray’s book, The Elements is every science fan’s dream, a world full of elements that is delivered in a way that we have never seen before. It is a delightful, 3D textbook with eye-popping visuals that takes learning to a whole new level.

Review
The Elements: A Visual Exploration is an amazing app that fills the iPad’s screen with beautiful 3D renderings of each element. The home page is presented as a fully animated periodic table with a rotating photograph of the element. You will be given two pages worth of information for each element.

Tapping on an element on the home page will bring up the first page containing a full sized photograph along with information such as the characteristics, atomic weight, melting/boiling points, density, crystal structure and many more physical characteristics of the specific element you have chosen. To get more in-depth information on the element presented to you, simply tap on the data displayed and you will be presented with a window full of information from the Wolfram Alpha service, as long as you’re connected to the internet.

The second page provides interesting facts about the chosen element, as well as several interactive photographs that you can touch and completely rotate. Double tapping on any of these images will cause it to fill up the screen, which you can also manipulate by touching the object. These images are already quite stunning on the iPad; however, these same images can also be seen in 3D, provided you have purchased a $5 set from the publisher’s website, Touch Press, which unfortunately I didn’t have.

I must warn you, The Elements: A Visual Exploration will take up almost 2GB of your iPad’s storage and will take an average of a couple of hours to download. Only landscape mode is supported and controlled by four navigational buttons that appears on the lower right hand portion of the screen. Because of its memory intensive nature, I experienced some minor crashes. However, the next time I launched the app, I was brought back to the last page I visited, so the event was not a big deal and did not in any way hinder the wonderful experience that this app provides.

Recommendation
The Elements: A Visual Exploration comes highly recommended for science fans or iPad owners who would like to showcase the power of what their new devices can do. Full of mouth dropping visualizations, this app makes learning fun on what was otherwise a painful subject for me when growing up. The Elements: A Visual Exploration is available now at the App Store for $13.99.

Check out The Elements: A Visual Exploration on the video below.

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Note: A promotional code was provided by the creator for use in this article.

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