01 / Form
Refract Blocks
An elastic mosaic. Some rectangles expand while their neighbors contract.
01Start webcam above
One camera.
54 ways of seeing.
The whole collection, together.
Start your webcam once, then scroll through time, form, signal, and pattern. Every camera lives right here.
54 cameras
Visible cameras play as you scroll. Offscreen effects rest.
02 / Form
Refract Organic
A continuous liquid field, bending and stretching across the entire image.
02Start webcam above
03 / Time
Duration Trails
The present leaves a residue. Earlier gestures linger as softly displaced echoes.
03Start webcam above
04 / Time
Time Strata
Hold the pointer still and older moments rise through the current image.
04Start webcam above
05 / Time
Fissure
The camera fractures into shifting panes. Earlier moments surface between them, then the image settles back into place.
05Start webcam above
06 / Signal
Phosphor
A restless analog image: separated color channels, scanlines, and a drifting beam.
06Start webcam above
07 / Signal
Cinema
A film-inspired camera: rich midtones, soft highlights, fine grain, and quiet halation. Framed at 24 frames per second.
07Start webcam above
08 / Pattern
Nodal Field
Camera detail and color show through a luminous interference field.
08Start webcam above
09 / Pattern
Scale Atlas
One image becomes a field of dots, hatching, or blocks at different scales.
09Start webcam above
10 / Form
Somatic Pulse
Deep rhythmic expansion, directional stretch, and separated echoes turn the camera into a breathing image.
10Start webcam above
11 / Hybrid
Chrono Blocks
Time × form. Expanding rectangles stretch fragments from different moments.
11Start webcam above
12 / Hybrid
Nodal Body
A gesture interference mirror. Your hands send colored waves across your live image, meeting in bright shifting patterns.
12Start webcam above
13 / Hybrid
Phosphor Memory
Signal × memory. Older image layers glow through a slowly fading phosphor surface.
13Start webcam above
14 / Time
Phase Weave
Four moments interlace like threads, turning a moving image into temporal cloth.
14Start webcam above
15 / Signal
Opponent Field
Color differences become saturated fields and glowing edges, revealing another structure in the image.
15Start webcam above
16 / Form
Pixel Relief
The camera becomes a shallow landscape of colored blocks. Brighter pixels rise higher.
16Start webcam above
17 / Form
Cell Mirror
A moving-cell mirror with mixed square sizes and motion-driven stretching.
17Start webcam above
18 / Form
Fault Lines
Movement separates the image into sliding plates. Older moments surface through the seams.
18Start webcam above
19 / Form
Borrowed Motion
A gesture here stretches the image over there. Opposite regions exchange their movement.
19Start webcam above
20 / Form
Elastic Memory
Gestures leave a bend in the image. Repeated movement builds a slowly relaxing imprint.
20Start webcam above
21 / Time
Time Weather
Drifting pockets of slow time carry earlier moments through the present.
21Start webcam above
22 / Form
Negative Space
Quiet surfaces become deep moving folds, with light and shadow flowing around the detail in your camera image.
22Start webcam above
23 / Time
Image Molting
Movement sheds translucent fragments of the image. Each curls away and slowly disappears.
23Start webcam above
24 / Pattern
Contour Loom
Image edges become colored threads. Movement pulls them loose; stillness weaves them back.
24Start webcam above
25 / Time
Sediment
Quiet regions build granular strata. Movement excavates them and exposes older color.
25Start webcam above
26 / Signal
Color Migration
Colors drift away from their objects while the image’s light and dark structure remains.
26Start webcam above
27 / Form
Pressure Glass
Movement presses a field of rectangular lenses. Each magnifies its own content, then releases.
27Start webcam above
28 / Signal
Troxler
Hold still and the image fades to grey, as a fixed stare does. Movement brings it back, leaving a brief afterimage in opposite colors.
28Start webcam above
29 / Form
Block-in
The image is painted the way a canvas is blocked in. Stillness refines big value masses into smaller strokes; movement knocks them back.
29Start webcam above
30 / Pattern
Turing Skin
The image grows a living pattern: spots in its shadows, mazes in its mid-tones, coral in its highlights. Movement scrapes it clear to grow back.
30Start webcam above
31 / Time
Rolling Shutter
Each line of the image is a slightly later moment than the last. Movement leans, bends and wobbles, like a propeller filmed on a phone.
31Start webcam above
32 / Signal
Datamosh
Old pixels ride along with your movement and the true picture never catches up. Stillness lets it slowly return.
32Start webcam above
33 / Pattern
Line Mirror
Thousands of fixed lines turn to catch the light. Each is driven by a slow motor, so quick movement leaves a mechanical wake.
33Start webcam above
34 / Form
Catchment
Grains in the image’s colors rain down and land on anything dark. They heap on shoulders and arms, and spill when you move.
34Start webcam above
35 / Time
Rehearsal Wall
Every burst of movement is recorded and set looping in its own box. The wall fills with your own rehearsals.
35Start webcam above
36 / Signal
Pixel Sort
Wherever you move, columns of pixels sort themselves by brightness and melt downward. Still areas stay clean.
36Start webcam above
37 / Time
Tango
Each gesture is cut out of the room and set looping in it. The room slowly fills with copies of you, all moving at once.
37Start webcam above
38 / Time
Joiner
The scene is pieced together from overlapping prints, each taken at its own moment from a slightly different place. Movement gets reshot more often.
38Start webcam above
39 / Signal
Scan Lines
Horizontal scan lines are lifted by the brightness beneath them, so the picture becomes a relief drawn in light.
39Start webcam above
40 / Signal
Feedback
The picture is fed back into itself, slightly zoomed and turned, like a camera pointed at its own monitor. Movement disturbs the tunnel.
40Start webcam above
41 / Signal
Magnet
A magnet bends the picture on an old black-and-white set into a whirl. It follows your pointer, or wherever the picture is busiest.
41Start webcam above
42 / Time
Chronophotograph
Only what moves is exposed onto a black plate at fixed intervals, so one gesture becomes a fan of separate stages.
42Start webcam above
43 / Pattern
Diffuser
A few hundred warm lights behind paper. Still, the picture is hard to read; in motion, figures appear.
43Start webcam above
44 / Form
Critter
A colorful troupe of little creatures climbs, wanders, and dances on your silhouette.
44Start webcam above
45 / Time
Shadow Portraits
The scene sits under bright light. Inside your shadow, the room shows as it was half a minute ago.
45Start webcam above
46 / Signal
Pulfrich
Real depth from a time delay. With red/cyan glasses, anything moving sideways floats in front of the screen or sinks behind it.
46Start webcam above
47 / Form
Anamorphosis
The picture is smeared along a slant, like the skull in Holbein’s Ambassadors. Find the viewing spot at the right edge and it snaps back.
47Start webcam above
48 / Form
Lost and Found
A painter’s edge control. Edges stay crisp near your point of focus and dissolve into their neighbors elsewhere.
48Start webcam above
49 / Signal
Chevreul
Each color is pushed away from the hue around it, and shadows take on the complement of the light, as Chevreul taught the Impressionists.
49Start webcam above
50 / Signal
Camera Obscura
The room projected upside down through a pinhole onto a wall. A wider hole is brighter and softer; a narrow one is sharp, dim and grainy.
50Start webcam above
51 / Pattern
Moiré
Two fine line gratings, one bent by the picture. You appear as interference bands that crawl when you move.
51Start webcam above
52 / Form
Molasses
Your image as 4,000 patches in a thick, slow medium. Brightness slopes and movement push them; a spring draws them home.
52Start webcam above
53 / Form
Thrown Paint
Movement throws paint in the image’s own colors into a swirling fluid. It curls, spreads and fades.
53Start webcam above
54 / Form
Bristle Shadow
You become a black shadow on a light box. Hold still and spines grow from your edges; move and you shed them.
54Start webcam above
No cameras match. Try another search.
About the collection & using your camera
Allow camera access once to see every study on this page. Adjust the controls beneath each live image. Freeze holds that individual effect; Stop webcam releases the camera for the whole collection.
For Tango, Chronophotograph, Critter, Shadow Portraits, and Bristle Shadow, step out of view and press Reset to let the effect learn the empty room. Nodal Body can optionally download body and face tracking models when you enable tracking.
To keep the collection responsive, effects outside the viewport release their image history. Controls are remembered for this visit; temporal effects begin a fresh history when you return. Camera frames are processed locally and are never uploaded. Camera access requires HTTPS or localhost.