Signal Loss

Transform any photo into an interactive 3D point cloud. On-device depth estimation. 21 real-time filters and 5 artifact styles. Privacy-first. No uploads.

Signal Loss turns any photo into a 3D point cloud you can orbit, sculpt, filter, and export.

Use any photo - a portrait, a landscape, a room - and Signal Loss reconstructs it in three dimensions using on-device depth estimation. No special camera required. No cloud processing. Everything runs on your iPhone.

HOW IT WORKS Signal Loss uses depth estimation to generate a dense particle field from a single image. Each pixel becomes a 3D point, colored from the original photo, rendered live at up to 1 million particles. The result isn't a flat image or a filtered photo - it's geometry you can move through.

For iPhone Pro users, we've added a Lidar option to walk around an object and warp the point cloud.

21 REAL-TIME FILTERS Every filter is computed in the GPU shader - no re-processing, no waiting.

RAW · FOG · SLICE · CONTOUR · ECHO · BLOOM · FALSE COLOR · WIRE · DUST · WAVE · LINES · SWARM · VEIL · PRISM · RIFT · BORE · DRIFT

Each filter transforms the cloud in a different way: atmospheric depth haze, animated particle swarms, prismatic chromatic shifts, structural wire overlays, and more.

SIGNAL LOSS TOOL Every 3D photograph has missing space - surfaces the camera never saw. Signal Loss is what fills it. Choose a quiet reconstruction or let the voids become field: particles, static, and atmospheric structure generated from absence itself. Experiment through 5 types of artifacts.

DRIFT A procedural flow field that animates every point in the cloud. Sinusoidal currents, depth-weighted movement, centripetal swirl. The scene becomes a living thing.

CAPTURE & EXPORT · 4K and 8K still capture · Video loop export (H.264) · 360° orbit, Sway, Pull In, Pull Out camera movements · Point cloud export (PLY) - open directly in Blender, MeshLab, CloudCompare · Spatial stereoscopic export for Apple Vision Pro · Transparent PNG with alpha channel

CONTROLS Orbit with one finger. Zoom and pan with two. Every parameter has a dedicated slider. Density runs from low to Ultra (1M points). The viewport background is fully adjustable - white, black, or any color you choose.

PRIVACY Signal Loss processes photos entirely on your iPhone. Images are never uploaded, transmitted, or stored outside your device.

Signal Loss is experimental software. Results are purposely unpredictable.