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Gem Smoke
A logo or word as clear glass with coloured smoke swirling along its walls
Turn a logo into a piece of clear glass with coloured smoke trapped inside. The smoke doesn't just sit behind the letters: it is drawn along their walls, curling round every edge and circling inside the holes of an A or an O, gathering thickest against the glass and thinning toward the middle. A bright line just inside the outline catches the light like the edge of a cut stone, and a little glow can spill out past it.
I. Made with Gem Smoke
Nobody has published a piece with Gem Smoke yet.
II. Everything else
- Blob Tracker — Locks targeting marks onto what moves below
- Contour — Detects edges with a Sobel filter and draws them as clean outlines
- CRT — Puts the layers below on a tube screen — scanlines, phosphor and curved glass, or worn VHS tape
- Dither — Ordered dithering of the layers below (duotone or reduced color)
- Engraving — Redraws the layers below as engraved line work — banknote portrait, cross-hatching or one spiral groove
- Glitch — Row displacement and scanline injection
- Glyph Dither — ASCII/glyph rendering of the layers below, by brightness
- Grain — Film grain noise, optionally animated
- Halftone — Rebuilds the image as a rotated grid of ink dots, lines or squares
- Heatmap — A logo, word or image seen through a thermal camera — a burning outline, a wide glow, a hot front sweeping across
- Liquid Metal — Turns a logo or word into polished, slowly molten metal — chrome, gold, mercury
- Pixel Sort — Sorts runs of pixels by brightness into dripping streaks — the glitch-art classic
- Pixelate — Snap coordinates to a coarse block grid
- Posterize — Quantize luminance into a flat color palette
- Subdivide — Break the layers below into blocks that keep splitting, by chance or by detail
- Topo Lines — Draws contour lines through the layers below, like a topographic map of their brightness