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The image is carried in pigments and dyes.
Computational Reflective Imaging
A new reflective
image medium.
No screen. No pigment. No emitted light.
Discover the mediumThe distinction
The surface is permanent.
The image is alive.
A mirror has no color of its own. What it shows depends on what it faces.
Computational Reflective Imaging turns that ordinary fact into a medium: computed reflective geometry organizes available light into photographic images.
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Screen
The image is carried in electronically controlled light.
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Flective
The image is carried in computed reflective geometry.
An early study
Eye, 2014
An early physical study, made at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco with Aaron Porterfield.
About 30 inches square: a single eye at the scale of a face roughly eight feet tall. This production test uses a 52 × 52 grid of overlapping half-inch circular facets. The finished piece is planned at 1/64-inch pixels, with precision-finished reflective surfaces: nearly three million pixels in the same panel. No ink, no power: the image is formed entirely by computed reflective geometry.
The work
Physical images,
resolved in real light.
Current development spans photographic works, architectural-scale installations, and public demonstration.
The work is grounded in issued U.S. patents.
Inquiries
Help bring a new image medium into the world.
For collaborations, commissions, technical partnerships, and company inquiries:
hello@flective.com