Afterglyph

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Afterglyph

Any picture, GIF, video or word as glowing glyph art.

IRIS · built-in

Subject

Background

Cut strength

How close to the background colour a pixel must be to get removed. Right removes more (cleaner edge, may eat the subject). Left keeps more.

Show what is kept

Fills everything that counts as the subject with solid blocks, so you can see the cut.

Swap light and dark

Use for dark drawings on a light background.

Mirror

Folds the picture so both halves match.

A look sets characters, colour and screen effects in one click.

Characters

Set Yours

Type any characters. They are sorted from lightest to heaviest automatically.

Size

Characters per row. Left: big and chunky. Right: small and detailed.

Edge lines

How much of the picture is drawn with / \ | = strokes that follow edges and texture.

Shimmer

How many characters keep changing. 0 holds the picture still.

Rain

Bright drops of digits fall down every column, and the picture shows through their trails.

Thin outline around the subject

Draws a faint line of characters around the edge of the subject.

Colour

Backdrop

The colour behind the characters. Keep it dark so the glow still reads.

Vividness

Colour strength when the colour comes from the file. 0 is grey.

Contrast

Pushes dark parts darker and bright parts brighter, so fewer mid characters.

Hue shift

Turns every colour around the colour wheel. Blue becomes pink, then orange, then green.

Rainbow

Spreads the hue shift across the picture, corner to corner.

Colour drift

Colours slowly travel around the wheel over time.

Screen

Glow

The soft light around bright characters.

Scanlines Grain Lens fringe

Old-screen effects: dark rows, film noise, and colour split toward the corners.

Screen curve

Bulges the picture like an old tube TV. The corners round off.

Glitch

Rows jump sideways and colours tear, a few times a second.

Ink on paper (light background)

Dark characters on a light page instead of light on dark.

Play an intro

The picture builds itself up when it starts or replays.

Intro style

How the picture appears. The built-in iris always grows its own way.

Speed

How fast everything moves. 1 is normal speed.

Camera moves

Slow push-ins and a close-up pass now and then.

Readouts

The rulers, numbers and trackers around the picture.

Caption

Replaces the second line in the bottom-left corner. Latin letters and digits.

3D

3D object

Turns the picture into a relief you can spin by dragging.

Lift the subject off the background

In 3D the subject is found automatically and turns, while the background stays flat and still behind it.

Turn by itself

Keeps turning slowly while you are not dragging.

Drag the stage to turn it. Scroll to zoom.

Gives the 3D object real depth: nose nearer, shoulders further. The first use downloads a 27 MB model; it then runs on your device and the picture is not uploaded.

Optional. A grey picture of the same shot where white is near and black is far.

Composed from the art when you press play.

Mood

The feel of the soundtrack. Auto reads it from the picture.

Volume

Colour picks the key, brightness the mode, detail the tempo. The intro, ruler ticks, trackers and pulses each have a sound. Recorded videos include it.

Frame

Shape

The shape of the picture, GIF and video. The art is always fitted whole, never cropped.

Sharpness

How many pixels the stage is drawn with. 2× is sharper and a little slower.

Transparent background

Saves without the backdrop, ready to lay over other footage. Video is then recorded live as WebM, because MP4 cannot be see-through.

Picture

GIF

The GIF starts from this moment and loops without a jump: its end dissolves back into its beginning. Bigger, longer and smoother all make a heavier file.

Video

With the soundtrack

The video gets the music composed for this art, even if it is not playing right now.

Start from the beginning

On: the video opens with the intro. Off: it starts from what is on the stage right now.

MP4, drawn frame by frame, so it stays smooth even on a slow computer. Keep this tab in front while it renders.

Share

The link carries every setting and the template or text. Your own files stay on your device, so they are not in it.