Ryosen

In 1973 Steve Rutt and Bill Etra built the Scan Processor, an analog machine that bent a television’s scanlines with voltages, and video artists played it like an instrument. Ryosen does it to your camera.

Ryosen runs your camera through a 1973 photo/video synthesizer. Each line of the picture lifts with the light under it, and whatever you point it at becomes a landscape of lines, live, that you can twist in a three-dimensional space.

Tap for a photo, hold for a video. Tap ‘random’ to go somewhere unexpected.

Every shot keeps what it was made from and the look it was made with, so you can open it later and change the lines. Photos and videos from your library go through it too.

Twenty presets to start from, from Topo’s plain relief to Prism, Dusk, Beat and Drape. Amount takes you from a touch of one to all of it.

Nearly fifty controls, for when you want to tinker: how many lines and how deep, their weight and colour, dots instead of lines, a fisheye, a dome, trails, and a time smear that shows the top of the picture now and the bottom a moment ago. Rest a finger on a control and it says what it does.

Everything is computed on your device. Nothing you shoot leaves it.