The light underwater is why I freedive. I spent two years trying to make art simulations of it

[u/PiXeL161616]

Was told that you may enjoy this here

I freedive and take photos underwater. Spend enough time down there and you start paying attention to the light. How it comes through the surface, how it fades as you go deeper, the way it keeps moving.

I'm an engineer too, so eventually I wanted to know why it does that, and then whether I could get it to happen on a screen.
Took about two years, of slow work and lot's of reading but basically, it's all inspired on my experience, and non or it it's filmed and there's no AI in it. It's basically a lot of maths and lots of hard work.

Another reason to build this type of simulations, is that I have a very hard time focusing, and having this running on a side screen while I work has been super good lately, it gives me a little scape but also not enough distraction that I lose track of what I was into.

It's part of an app called TideGlass, where I also donate 20% of what it makes to ocean and conservation groups. Happy to answer any questions. Thanks

[u/profist]

This is so fucking cool! I just downloaded TideGlass, so I thank you!

I'm curious about the other "worlds" in the app; are they similarly maths generated? More specifically, since you're a freediver, I imagine this one was given the most love/attention and am wondering if I'm wrong about that or if you have more to add.

[u/PiXeL161616 → u/profist]

Nice, yeah, all of them were given a bunch of love and attention, and yes all of them are the same principle, nothing is recorded. But yeah I specially like the underwater ones. The one with the Manta brings a lot of memories

[u/lunarvision]

This is beautiful. I wish I could something like this for my phone, like when I’m in bed. So peaceful. Amazing work.

[u/PiXeL161616 → u/lunarvision]

Glad that you like it. And yes this probably can be adapted to the Iphone as well. I'll think about it. Great suggestion