{"id":14357,"date":"2025-08-27T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14357"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:14:32","slug":"polaroid-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14357","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mattstark7814\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mattstark7814\">Matt Stark<\/a> came up with a great little 3D viewfinder\/polaroid effect in which you can take a photo then insert that geometry into the world &#8211; fully interactable. This is kind of like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/profile\/bigsocrates\/blog\/superliminal-wants-to-be-portal-its-not-but-its-a-\/255393\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/profile\/bigsocrates\/blog\/superliminal-wants-to-be-portal-its-not-but-its-a-\/255393\/\">Superliminal<\/a>, but with the whole world &#8211; not just individual objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ran_yU65Xmg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I do love games like this that bend their worlds with effects like this, or non-Euclidean manipulations like <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/219890\/Antichamber\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/219890\/Antichamber\/\">Antichamber<\/a>. The reality is that these types of games are almost always limited to single-player puzzle games. Makes me wonder if there are other applications of such projective techniques beyond puzzle solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stark came up with a great little 3D viewfinder\/polaroid effect in which you can take a photo then insert that geometry into the world &#8211; fully interactable. This is kind of like Superliminal, but with the whole world &#8211; not just individual objects. I do love games like this that bend their worlds with effects like this, or non-Euclidean manipulations like Antichamber. The reality is that these types of games are almost always limited to single-player puzzle games. 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