Prisma — Real-time VHS, glitch, fluted glass and watercolour effects
Neon · glowing edges on black
01 What it is
The darkroom, on the graphics card.
Prisma stacks effects computed by the graphics card, each with its blend mode, opacity and zone. Fluted glass, film, CRT screen, watercolour, a reaction-diffusion simulation living on the image.
It takes the output of the other modules: a Spora screen goes under bleeding ink and paper grain, and looks truly printed. Export as an image up to 4×, or as video.
138effects
66recipes
31transitions
17blend modes
02 What it can do
Reaction-diffusion · the pattern in relief behind the dancer
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Simulations
Liquid flow, reaction-diffusion, melting, game of life: effects that evolve over time.
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Glass and optics
Fluted, frosted, rain on the window, glass bricks: the image moves behind a material.
Fluted glass
Paper cut, then LED panel
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Screens
VHS, CRT, LED panel, lost signal, thermal camera: every machine that ever displayed an image.
Cut-out flats · cream and grey
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Handmade
Ink wash, watercolour, paper cut, knitting, cross-stitch: the photo remade by hand.
02.1 How to get there
Videos recorded before the renaming: at the top of the screen, Prisma is still called Labo. What’s new →
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Jellyfish, neon
Three recipes, then the neon’s radius, threshold and intensity, responding live.
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Profile, in relief
The plate’s exact stack: taken apart down to the photo, then rebuilt layer by layer.
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An image that starts to move
The Labo’s animated recipes really play: a still image warps, ripples and breathes, and its subject stays recognisable.
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The wave, a single line
A single spiral draws the whole photo. Turns, thickness, centre: each setting transforms it.
Next mode
07 Kinema →