Pointfield Camera

A living mirror made of light. Point your camera at anything and watch it come apart into glowing points you can push, ripple, and scatter with your hands.

Pointfield turns your camera into a field of glowing points. Aim it at anything, a face, a plant, the street, and the picture reassembles itself out of thousands of tiny drifting lights that you can push, part, and scatter with your hands.

Everything is live and physical:

Drag to part the dust where your finger moves. Tap to send a slow ripple out across the field. Double-tap to explode the points from that spot, tap again for a bigger blast. Pinch open to dissolve the image into a drifting cloud, close to let it reform. Tilt your phone to pour the field toward the low edge. Shake to reset.

Switch between your live camera and built-in sample clips. Open the settings to tune brightness, particle size, glow, density, and how strongly the field answers to tilt. Record a clip and save it to your Photos to keep or share.

Pointfield runs entirely on your device. The camera is processed on the fly and never leaves your phone. No accounts, no data collection, no network. It works in airplane mode.

It is less a camera app than an instrument: a quiet, tactile way to watch the world come apart into light and put itself back together.

Made by Ciamac Parhizi. More work at ciamac.com