warp / optical effects

Warp effects remap coordinates rather than changing colour: every output pixel is sampled from a different place in the source, so the palette survives intact while geometry does not. kott's warp family covers radial projections like fisheye, mirrors and kaleidoscopes, ripples and twirls, liquid and glass displacement, and slit scanning. Reach for this category to imitate an optical system, to make a static image feel unstable, or to build a pattern out of a photograph's own contents. Because the remap magnifies some regions and compresses others, always start from the highest resolution source you have: enlarged areas cannot invent detail the original never held.