2020s
Latent-Space Morphing
GAN history. Open diffusion experiments, especially from 2022/2023 onwards.
Generative Image-to-Video
Public product launch from 2023. Examples from 2024/2025 will follow.
Ink Bleed
2020s: a precisely controllable digital print look
Thermal False Color
2020s: Filter revival of an older sensor aesthetic
2.5D Parallax
2020: 3D Photo Inpainting as a research milestone; layer animation older
3D Gaussian Splatting
2023: SIGGRAPH work by Kerbl and team
Generative Inpainting
2021–2022: LaMa research and more widely accessible generative image processing
Generative Outpainting
August 31, 2022: DALL·E-Outpainting as a public product milestone
Text-to-Image Generation
2021, public introduction of DALL-E
Neural Radiance Fields
2020, Ben Mildenhall et al. publication
LED Volume
2019, Industrial Light & Magic's StageCraft system
Neumorphism
Late 2019 emergence; widely discussed in 2020 interface design.
Neural Relighting
2020s; Google’s Portrait Light introduced in 2020
Liquid Glass Interface
2025, introduced by Apple