Cassini Camera

Palette-Quantized Photography

Only for iPhone

Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

iPhone

Every frame reduced to twelve colours by a Metal GPU shader. Sixteen palettes. No filters. No editing. The palette is the only creative decision. Point, quantise, keep. Cassini Camera is a palette-quantised photography instrument for iPhone. It takes the 12-colour palette system from the Cassini ECS-1 drawing suite and applies it to a live camera feed. A Metal GPU shader reduces every frame to the nearest colours in your chosen palette at 30 frames per second. What you see in the viewfinder is what you get. INSTRUMENT SPECIFICATIONS - 12-colour palette quantisation via Metal compute shader - 500 x 1000 live viewfinder at 30 FPS - 2000 x 4000 output resolution (4x nearest-neighbour upscale) - 16 built-in palettes - Exposure compensation: ±3 EV in 0.3-stop steps - All built-in lenses supported - Direct save to Photos CONTROLS The interface is a skeuomorphic camera body. There are no menus, no settings screens, and no editing tools. - Shutter wheel: tap to capture, spin to adjust exposure - Palette button: cycle through 16 palettes - Lens button: switch between cameras - Sub-display: shows current palette, exposure, or lens - Camera Control (iPhone 16): swipe to browse palettes, press to capture HOW IT WORKS The shader samples every pixel in the camera feed and maps it to the nearest colour in the active palette using Euclidean distance in RGB space. The result is written to the viewfinder in real time. When you tap the shutter, the current frame is upscaled 4x with nearest-neighbour interpolation and saved directly to your photo library. PALETTES Sixteen curated palettes are provided: Arafura, Spindrift, Sherbrooke, Chukhung, Poa Alpina, La Caldera, Shenzhou, Altostratus, Insolate, Daphnis 26, Hyperborea, Kobresia, Antennaria, Uva-Ursi, Endurium, and Laika. Each contains 12 colours chosen to produce distinct photographic character across a range of subjects. COMPANION Cassini Camera is a companion to the Cassini ECS-1 Electrographic Creation Suite for iPad. It shares the same palette library and the same philosophy: fewer choices, more deliberate work.

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    Seller
    Ruby Morgan Voigt
    Size
    3.1 MB
    Category
    Photo & Video
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.2 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.2 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.2 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © Public Domain. Created by Ruby Morgan Voigt
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