From photon to reality

The seven stages

1. 01

   Source

   A word, a photo, a screenshot, a live camera capture or a generated reference image. The source is never displayed as is: it is read in luminance and becomes a probability map of detection.

2. 02

   Emission

   Each detection draws one event at a time. Density and speed set the emission rate: a low rate keeps the pure photon regime, a high rate builds an image.

3. 03

   Time as colour

   The arrival time of each event is coded by the spectral palette. Two palettes can be mixed to obtain an intermediate time signature, or rotate automatically along the accumulation.

4. 04

   Depth and relief

   Local luminance gradients give a normal, lit by one to three sources. Relief turns the flat statistical field into volume, with a specular response that follows the light.

5. 05

   Reconstruction

   The reality slider compresses the noise floor, contracts the dots and raises the contrast: the same field moves from raw event to photographic reading, and back.

6. 06

   Extension and inversion

   Extension reframes the field beyond its own boundaries, inversion negates the light. Both are reversible, so a work always remains an ongoing state, never a fixed file.

7. 07

   Fixing

   A frozen state is a seed, a palette, a set of parameters and an integrity hash. That signature is what the certificate of authenticity carries.

The axis, live

Move the reality, extension and invert sliders, or load one of the presets, to travel the full axis on a single field.

Presets as positions on the axis

• photon pur

  realism 0, low density: only the events exist.

• portrait

  contained spectrum, medium relief, skin and gaze.

• affiche

  dense dots on black ground with a spectral halo, poster reading.

• landscape

  cold depth, slow accumulation, wider framing.

• immersion

  maximum density, rotating palettes, extended field.

• réel

  realism 1, silver palette, maximum reconstruction.