Brain Tutor HD on iPad - It's a Kind of Magic Posted By: Rainer Goebel - Nov 10, 2010Tool/Resource: BrainVoyager Brain Tutor When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad to the world, he called it a “magic” device. And indeed, playing, learning and working with it feels very intuitive. Especially its relatively large screen evokes the feeling that one works with a serious mobile computing platform and the multi-touch interface is even more impressive than on a 3-4 inch gesture-driven smartphone screen. When I decided to develop a version of Brain Tutor for the iPad, I immediately realized that it had to exploit the larger screen for more efficient navigation and for better visualizations of brain slices and brain meshes as compared to the iPhone version (Brain Tutor 3D). In order to provide an appropriate iPad user interface, I used the “split view controller” that separates the screen in a smaller left pane and a larger right view (see snapshot above). As opposed to the iPhone, this allows to simultaneously show table and text information (left side) and the brain visualizations (right side). Read more on Rainer's Blog: http://web.mac.com/rainergoebel/RainersB...’s_a_Kind_of_Magic.html |
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