LAB-27 Lightline, explained
Where we try things
No client, no brief. Three products and a film format started here.
Experiments, instruments and Lightline’s films
Finish Machined steel · drag to turn
LAB-14 to LAB-27 · 2026
One drawing. One light.
Lightline is our own film format: one engineering drawing, one moving light, and your scroll as the camera.
In LabsWebGPU · phone first
For your idea: Lightline films, in two weeks
Watch Forty-one seconds The caseEvery experiment
| No. | Year | Experiment | Discipline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAB-30 | 2026 | CerberusThe interface of an imagined dark-fantasy game: a title screen, a knight to inspect, a map to explore. | Games | Prototype |
| LAB-29 | 2026 | AperturePage transitions through animated SVG geometry. Open source, and the iris on every link of this site. | Web | Live |
| LAB-28 | 2026 | Power-on, two waysThe first page reads your machine and says how it will render for it. Both versions run here. | Real-time | Live |
| LAB-16–27 | 2026 | LightlineNine films and three studies, from Forty-one seconds to Lightline, explained. | Film | Live |
| LAB-15 | 2026 | The drawing setSix engineering plates lit by one lamp. Where the format started. | Real-time | Live |
| LAB-14 | 2026 | Light, computedFive WebGPU studies. The sea in the home film came from here. | Real-time | Live |
| LAB-13 | 2026 | Alert matrixEight ways a phone can silence an alert, tested on every iOS beta. | Hardware | Now Reach |
| LAB-12 | 2026 | 626Render-loop sketches: where our feel for smooth frame rates comes from. | Real-time | Ongoing |
| LAB-11 | 2025 | Kuji-VisionNine hand seals as a headset gesture vocabulary. Shipped inside Sign of Love. | Spatial | Fed a product |
| LAB-10 | 2024 | Geospatial 24Live map tiles streamed into Unity in a weekend. The streamer outlived the hackathon. | Real-time | Became a product |
| LAB-09 | 2024 | RPM env testWhich HDRIs flatter cheap avatar meshes, measured rather than argued. | Real-time | Field note |
| LAB-08 | 2023 | Disco FloorBeat detection driving an emissive shader grid. Louder than it needed to be, on purpose. | Real-time | Weekend |
| LAB-07 | 2022 | Frosty LampPresence-reactive light, flashed until it behaved. Still at the door. | Hardware | Still running |
| LAB-05 | 2021 | Bench playlistWhat we listen to while the build compiles. | Off-topic | Side A |
Experiments that became products
Sign of Love
Kuji-Vision’s hand tracking, teaching American Sign Language. In the first wave of Vision Pro apps, still on the App Store.
2024 · Apple Vision ProShipped
Video Streamer
Built in a weekend because nothing was fast enough. Now licensed by other studios.
2021 · Unity pluginLicensed
Aperture
Page transitions that open a page through animated SVG geometry. The iris on every link of this site, open source.
2026 · WebOpen source
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