A live gallery of interactive media studies

The Hand Inside the Equation

Every craft that has been reduced to mathematics lost the hand that made it. What happens when you hand the equation back?

  1. 01

    Suminagashi

    Mathematical marbling: ink, a bath, and the maps that move it.

    Closed-form inverse maps · WebGL2 · batched bake

  2. 02

    Photon Sphere

    Light bent around a black hole: the orbit equation on paper, the image it makes in the sky.

    Null geodesics · RK4 per pixel · G-buffer shading

  3. 03

    Textmode Mirror

    An image made only of letters, and the threshold where the letters become a face.

    Measured glyphs · 6D shape vectors · GPU atlas