{"id":349,"date":"2013-02-01T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/blooms\/?p=349"},"modified":"2013-02-01T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:04:24","slug":"the-elements-a-visual-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/the-elements-a-visual-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements: A Visual Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Theodore Gray comes a beautifully produced app introducing and educating users on the elements of the periodic table and how they combine to form the world around us. The Elements is a rich and engaging love story, told in words and pictures &#8211; allowing you to experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you&#8217;ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Start off on a living periodic table where every element is shown with a smoothly rotating sample. To read about gold, tap the gold nugget. Immediately you see the sample filling the screen, photographed to razor sharpness and rotating around a complete circle in front of your eyes. Enjoy the extensive array of facts and figures. Next find a fascinating story about the element, surrounded by carefully photographed objects representing it. Every one of these objects, well over 500 in total, is a freely rotatable, live object that you can examine from all sides and pinch zoom to see in unprecedented detail.<\/p>\n<p>Touch the element name at the top of the page and you can see that element\u2019s name in over a dozen different languages. Choose one and you\u2019ll find that the entire book, stories, captions and all, switches to that language: The Elements includes both the full English original text and over a dozen full translations.<\/p>\n<p>Pinch-zoom or tap any object to bring it up full screen, where you can split into a pair of stereo 3D images, allowing you to see all 500 objects pop off the screen in 3D, and you can spin the objects, in 3D, with the touch of a finger.<\/p>\n<p>This book will show everyone there\u2019s a lot more to the periodic table than a bunch of numbers and letters.<\/p>\n<p>Features include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Beautifully composed pages for every Element in the periodic table<br \/>\n\u2022 Fun stories and fascinating facts<br \/>\n\u2022 All objects pinch-zoom with amazing detail and rotate in 3D<br \/>\n\u2022 Engaging introduction explaining the structure of the periodic table<br \/>\n\u2022 Engaging introduction explaining the structure of the periodic table<br \/>\n\u2022 Fully translated into English, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nReviews:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe iPad\u2019s splendor and power may be best shown by The Elements&#8230; it\u2019s not like any ebook you\u2019ve seen. 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