R—01LIGHT
Rays traced through real surfaces: refraction, Fresnel, total internal reflection, spectral dispersion.
BEYOND
THE IMAGE.
INDEPENDENT IMAGE TECHNOLOGY STUDIO.
RAYGLASS 001 — VIRTUAL GLASS FOR DAVINCI RESOLVE. EARLY ACCESS, macOS.
INDEPENDENT IMAGE
TECHNOLOGY STUDIO
Rethinking the physicality of digital images.
We develop experimental optical instruments and image-making technologies that bring physical phenomena into digital environments.
NEW RELEASE · OS—01
RAYGLASS 001
OpenFX for DaVinci Resolve
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OPTICSIMAGE SCIENCEEXPERIMENTATION
01 / INSTRUMENTSOS—01 — CURRENT RELEASE
RAYGLASS 001
OS—01 · RAYGLASS 001 · EARLY ACCESS
RETHINK THE OPTICAL SURFACE.
A VIRTUAL GLASS ELEMENT BUILT ON RAY-TRACING TECHNOLOGY.
EXPLORE THE INSTRUMENT ↗02 / RESEARCHONGOING
LIGHT. MATERIAL. PERCEPTION.
Explorations in digital optics and image-making technologies.
R—01
R—02MATERIAL
Organic glass from noise and height: blown, hammered, rippled, frosted, wet. Bubbles as real air cavities.
R—03PERCEPTION
How a flaw becomes a feeling: ghosts, halos and smears that the eye reads as memory, distance, heat.
RAYGLASS 001 / THE IDEA
RETHINK THE OPTICAL SURFACE.
Hold a piece of glass in front of a lens and the image splits, stretches, echoes and bends. That stays a gesture made on set. RAYGLASS builds the same glass in 3D and traces every ray through it, so the look can follow your footage into your post-production work.
Fresnelreflection and transmission at every surface
Refractionreal index of refraction, real thickness
Total internal reflectionlight trapped and bounced inside the glass
Absorptioncolored glass tints with its depth
OUTSIDE THE GLASS, THE IMAGE IS PIXEL-IDENTICAL. INSIDE, IT IS OPTICS.
RAYGLASS 001 / BEFORE — AFTER
Same frame. Through the glass.
The same shot, with and without RAYGLASS 001. Drag the line to compare, then pick another clip below.
BEFORE
RAYGLASS 001
RAYGLASS 001 / LOOK DEVELOPER
Develop the look. Then apply it.
A new way to interact with your OpenFX inside DaVinci Resolve.
Look Developer is where a look is made: every setting by section, a live preview, and Apply to write it to your node. Step through the presets with the ‹ › arrows, then open any section to shape it.
RAYGLASS 001 / LOOKS
75 looks as a starting point.
Fully customisable, by you.
LOOK
·
SWIPE THE IMAGE TO CHANGE LOOK · THE FULL LOOK DEVELOPER, WITH EVERY SECTION, OPENS ON A LARGER SCREEN.
Your turn. ‹ › browse the looks · BRIGHT DARK switch the shot · the sections show every setting
‹ › OR ARROW KEYS — CHANGE LOOK · HOLD SPACE — SEE THE FRAME WITHOUT GLASS · BRIGHT / DARK — SWITCH THE SCENE
RAYGLASS 001 / 47 GLASS SHAPES · 7 FAMILIES
47 glass shapes. Seven families.
An optical bench, not a distortion filter. Each shape is a real piece of glass in 3D that every ray crosses, from flat plates and prisms to fluted, hammered and rain-covered glass. Pick one, then make it yours: size, position, tilt, material, color fringes, lens and light.
+ YOUR OWN GLASS · IMPORT A 3D MODEL AND TRACE IT AS GLASS · OBJ, STL, PLY
GLASS SHAPE
·
CONTROLS OF ITS OWN
+ SHARED BY EVERY SHAPE
75 READY-MADE LOOKS IN THE PLUGIN · EVERY ONE BUILT ON THESE SHAPES
03 / EARLY ACCESS
RAYGLASS 001RETHINK THE OPTICAL SURFACE.
EARLY ACCESS
$79 USD
ONE-TIME PAYMENT · NO SUBSCRIPTION
- OpenFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve · macOS
- Look Developer window
- 75 starting looks · User Presets
- Working on a CUDA version · Windows
Try it free for 7 days
FULL VERSION · NO WATERMARK · 7 DAYS ON ONE MAC · ONE TRIAL PER MAC · KEY SENT BY EMAIL, NO CARD
RAYGLASS 001 / SPECIFICATIONS
- Product
- RAYGLASS 001 — OpenFX plugin
- License
- One-time payment · no subscription
- Free trial
- 7 days · full version, no watermark · one trial per Mac
- Host
- DaVinci Resolve 20 or later · Free or Studio
- macOS
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel · available now
- Windows
- NVIDIA CUDA · coming soon
- GPU
- Metal, hardware raytracing when available · CPU fallback
- Quality
- Draft 4 rays / px to Final 64 · Auto by resolution
- Glass
- 40+ shapes · 14 organic · custom mesh and height map
- Looks
- 75 starting looks in 9 families · User Presets
04 / STUDIO
BEYOND THE IMAGE.
INDEPENDENT IMAGE TECHNOLOGY STUDIO
Every OBLIQUE STUDIO instrument is numbered. RAYGLASS is 001: the first of a series of tools that start from something physical — glass, light, a lens — and carry it into your post-production work, alongside what was shot.
- P—01The physical first.
We model the object, not the effect. Glass has a thickness, an index, a distance from the lens. The look follows from that.
- P—02Untouched where untouched.
Outside the glass, the image is identical to the pixel. An instrument should only change what it touches.
- P—03Accidents, on purpose.
The flare you didn't plan, the ghost in the edge of the frame. We study how they happen, so a look found on set can carry through a scene, without becoming predictable.
- P—04Tools, not filters.
A preset is a starting point. The work is yours: every look opens in Look Developer, down to the last ray.
- P—05Next to the real thing.
RAYGLASS doesn't replace the prism in your hand, or the people who shoot with it. It is made for real footage and real technique: matching a practical look across a scene, extending it to shots where glass couldn't be, or sketching an idea before the shoot.