Independent programmer Andrew Garrison today introduces Touch Island 1.0 for iOS, his 3D modeling and rendering app that enables the user to create a photo-realistic island surrounded by ocean. Sculpting mountains, valleys, and lakes is accomplished with a single finger. An auto-color function assigns shading by altitude, or color may be applied manually. The angle and altitude of sunlight, and camera angle are adjustable, and rendering with textures and reflections is done using ray-tracing.

I've used MochiAds before, as a developer, to monetize a few simple Flash games I made, but this week I stepped over to the other side of the fence and I uploaded an ad for my new iPhone application, Touch Island.

Touch Island was submitted to the iTunes App Store last night. The initial price will be $0.99. I'm hoping for a speedy approval with no rejections! That might be a lofty expectation, but I've only had one rejection thus far from Apple, and that was BridgeBasher Lite.