Loughborough Wave Lab vs Parametric Creature
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loughborough Wave Lab
This educational app helps students grasp electromagnetic wave concepts through interactive simulations. It features a virtual ripple tank, waveguide simulator, and Young's Double Slit experiment. Educators can create custom simulations for an enhanced learning experience.
- Virtual pond and ripple tank
- Sinusoidal pulse generation
- Waveguide simulation
- Young's Double Slit experiment
- Custom simulation mode
- Educator-authored simulation uploads
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Loughborough Wave Lab is an educational learning app designed to aid students in their understanding of electromagnetic wave concepts in an engaging and entertaining way! Features include: • Virtual pond • Persistent Sinusoidal Pulses • Virtual Ripple Tank • Waveguide Simulator • Young's Double Slit Experiment • Custom Simulation Mode Loughborough Wave Lab is intended to accompany teaching on Electromagnetic phenomena and to provide students with an interactive way of seeing these principles in action! Educators can now author their own custom simulation files, upload them to a web server and then have Loughborough Wave Lab execute the simulations using a WiFi or cellular data connection to download the configurations and display them to the user. This uses the new, open-source configuration standard CEML which has been introduced by the developer (available at www.github.com/danielrbrowne/CEML)
Parametric Creature
Explore complex bionic systems with over 15,000 particles. Adjust eight parameters to observe emergent group behaviors inspired by nature, from cell division to bird migration. This app uses advanced GPU algorithms for real-time simulation, offering a glimpse into life and biodiversity.
- 15,000+ particle simulation
- Eight adjustable parameters
- Bionic system exploration
- Real-time GPU algorithms
- Metaphor of life and biodiversity
- Complex emergent behaviors
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Cohesion, Alignment, Separation... In this work, more than 15k particles of three types wander around the screen, each controlled by eight different parameters, together forming a complex and interesting bionic system. In nature, many life forms are like this system, evolving complex group behavior from individual simple rules. From small cell division and ant pathfinding, to large crowds gathering and dispersing and bird migration. Advanced GPU parallel algorithms based on the theory of complex systems are used to make this large-scale real-time simulation possible, allowing users to adjust parameters by adjusting knobs to explore the metaphor of life and biodiversity in the work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Loughborough Wave Lab at Free against Parametric Creature's $1.99. Parametric Creature's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Loughborough Wave Lab is free to download; Parametric Creature costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parametric Creature holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 100% of Parametric Creature's.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Parametric Creature |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Latent Cat Inc |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
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In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Parametric Creature
No in-app purchases
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