Glass Tiles Effect for Any Image
A wall of glass blocks in front of your photo: every tile bends its own piece of the image, with rainbow dispersion at the edges.
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Glass Tiles Effect — how it works
See a photo through hexagonal or square glass blocks with refraction.
How the glass works
The frame is covered with tiles of the chosen shape. Each tile acts like a thick piece of glass: it refracts the part of the image behind it toward its center, so the picture breaks into many small lenses. Dispersion splits colors slightly at the tile edges, like light passing through a prism.
Tiles, refraction, light
Tile size sets how many blocks cross the image, refraction how strongly each one bends it. The light angle moves the highlight on the glass bevels. Circles give a bubble wrap look, triangles a faceted crystal, squares classic glass bricks.
GPU rendering
It is a WebGL shader running locally, so sliders update instantly and the full-size download uses the same shader as the preview.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fluted Glass uses long parallel ribs; Glass Tiles uses a grid of individual blocks.
No, everything runs in your browser.
The effect needs WebGL. If your browser has it disabled, the image stays as it is.