Your images. In a different dimension.
Shape a liquid-glass film strip around your images and looping videos. Curved surfaces, soft reflections and continuous motion, rendered in WebGPU.
Part of Aperveil Pro · Coming soon. The live demo, editor and downloads will open in a later release. Free shaders and blocks are available now.
THE SYSTEM BEHIND THE SURFACE
Inside Glass Reel.
A rounded, three-dimensional film strip carries your media through an authored studio. Images and videos share the same surface coordinates, so they follow every bend and axial twist. Distance-based travel keeps the film moving evenly along its path. Optional paired perforations move with the frames; they are openings through both faces, not dark dots painted on the glass. Fresnel reflection, a tinted glass body and restrained edge dispersion give the strip its liquid-glass finish.
This is a controlled mesh surface, not a cloth solver or a full scene ray tracer. Refraction samples the shader's studio, not the HTML behind it. MP4 and WebM support depends on browser codecs. Animated GIF decoding, audio playback, online storage and a Svelte adapter are not included. The React Export Kit requires its included renderer folder; WGSL alone cannot reproduce the geometry.
No published timing sample. Profile this effect on your target devices.
Width
Width of the film ribbon.
Curvature
How far the ribbon swings up and down along its path.
Twist
How much the ribbon rolls back and forth as it travels.
Frame gap
Space between neighbouring frames on the film.
Color Looks preserve these settings. Open the editor for all 29 controls.
APERVEIL PRO
Coming soon.
This Pro surface's demo, editor and downloads will open in a later release. Free shaders and blocks are available now.
Explore shadersTHE SURFACE IN CONTEXT
Made for a real interface.
Give a photography portfolio, film studio or product collection a moving editorial opening. Keep the essential story in accessible HTML and let a small, considered sequence of images run through the glass. This demonstration uses existing Aperveil shader posters as film content, not as screenshots of Glass Reel.
An illustrative layout. Your content stays in HTML; the shader sets the atmosphere.
A FEW USEFUL DETAILS
Before you ship.
What this surface does, where it fits, and where it stops.
ANOTHER WAY TO SEE IT
Keep exploring.
YOUR COLORS. YOUR CONTEXT.