Caustic Obstacles

An exploration of light transport and pathtracing in 2D.

In collaboration with TENDER.

Press "s" to save a screenshot. Caustic Obstacles uses progressive monte carlo rendering, meaning that at first the image will appear noisy, but over time it will become smoother. It may take up to several minutes for the noise to become unnoticeable (or longer, if you specify a very high resolution). The piece is never officially "done" rendering, but instead becomes asymptotically smoother with time - take your screenshots whenever you feel it's smooth enough!

Use the url "width" parameter to change the resolution of the piece, e.g. "/?width=2160". Every edition is rendered in a 5x7 aspect ratio, and the height will be determined automatically based on the width specified. This means that the height will be determined with the formula width * 7 / 5, rounded up. By default the width is 1080, which results in a height of 1512, while a width of, for example, 2160, would result in a height of 3024.

–––––––
TENDER x ella
December 2023
Caustic Obstacles is a generative art series created by Ella Hoeppner in collaboration with Adam Berninger of Tender.
–––––––