How High or Far
Measure the height of, or the distance to an object.
$2.99
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
Updated: Jan 18, 2012
Category: Utilities
Version: 2.0
Size: 4.3 MB
Language: English
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Description
Measure the height of, or the distance to an object.
Great for finding out the height of that tree in your backyard (without climbing it!).
Using the iPhone's camera, sight the object through the cross-hairs. The iPhone's accelerometers are used to obtain an accurate elevation angle to the object.
Enter the distance to the object and its height can then be calculated. Alternatively, if the object's height is know, then the distance to it may be calculated.
Features
- designed for both iPhone and iPad
- use cross-hairs overlaid on the device's camera display to accurately measure the elevation angle to the object
- calculate either the height of, or the distance to an object
- lock the elevation angle to allow easy adjustment of other parameters
- includes support for an optional height offset to add a fixed value to the height calculation
- ability to save preview image with calculation values
- thumbwheel control for fast and easy value input
- supports portrait and landscape and orientations
- supports front facing camera
- digital zoom
- can be used as an educational tool to teach trigonometry
- metric and imperial measure
