At a glance
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
Rear Projection
Three-Strip Technicolor
Travelling Matte
Light Painting
Day for Night
Optical Printer
Interlacing
Kodachrome Color
Multiplane Camera
Pinscreen Animation
Stroboscopic Photography
Direct Animation on Film
Political Retouching
Kirlian Photography
Fumage
Decalcomania
Distortion Photography
Zone System
Photoelasticity
Busby Berkeley Top Shot
1940s
1950s
1960s
Slit-Scan Photography
Magnetic CRT Distortion
Liquid Light Show
Film Grain
False-Color Infrared
Fisheye Lens
Front Projection
Sodium Vapor Process
Rack Focus
ASCII Art
Lenticular Print
Ben-Day Dots
Op Art
Holography
Silkscreen Print
Jump Cut
Crash Zoom
Star Filter
Mordançage
Push Processing
Match Cut
Xerographic Animation
Spirograph
Cymatics
Scanning Electron Micrograph
Pen Plotter Art
Flicker Film
Psychedelic Poster Art
Sand Animation
Paik–Abe Video Synthesizer
1970s
Video Feedback
Wireframe CGI
Chroma Key
Motion-Control Photography
Split-Field Diopter
Rutt–Etra Scan Processing
Scanimate Analog Animation
Texture Mapping
Bump Mapping
Photocopy Aesthetic
Phong Shading
Gouraud Shading
Polaroid SX-70
Polaroid Manipulation
Steadicam Float
Vector Display Graphics
Teletext Graphics
Graduated Filter
Conway's Game of Life
Animatronics
Dot-Matrix Printout
1980s
Backlit Animation
1-Bit Dithering
Image Morphing
Time-Lapse
VHS Tape Artifacts
CRT Scanlines
Recursive Ray Tracing
Radiosity
Risograph
Particle Systems
Fractal Landscape
Mandelbrot Set
Perlin Noise
Raster Bars
Go Motion
Pixel Art
Orton Effect
Lith Printing
Digital Video Effects
Quantel Paintbox
Palette Cycling
Sprite Scaling
Film Colorization
Photographic Joiners
Paint-on-Glass Animation
Animated GIF
1990s
Photorealistic CGI
Bullet Time
Cross Processing
Bleach Bypass
Light Leaks
Lomography
SnorriCam
Wire Removal
Pixelation
Posterization
Threshold
Displacement Mapping
Normal Mapping
Night Vision
Plasma Effect
Mode 7
Voxel Graphics
Selective Color
Isometric Pixel Graphics
Raycasting
Affine Texture Warping
Distance Fog
Fractal Flames
Reaction-Diffusion Patterns
L-System Plants
Autostereogram
ChromaDepth 3D
Matrix Digital Rain
WordArt
Grunge Typography
Shaky Cam
2000s
HDR Imaging
Miniature Faking
Datamoshing
Anamorphic Lens Flare
Speed Ramping
Motion Capture
Databending
Liquify
Subsurface Scattering
Ambient Occlusion
Teal and Orange
Emboss
Bevel and Chrome
Mirror Repeat
Polar Coordinates
Point Cloud Rendering
Digital Color Grading
Cel Shading
Volumetric Light
Crowd Simulation
Fluid Simulation
Fur Simulation
Image-Based Lighting
Redscale Film
Panning Shot
Long Exposure Water
Focus Stacking
Frutiger Aero
Skeuomorphic Interface
2010s
RGB Split
Cinemagraph
DeepDream
AR Face Filters
Split Toning
Halation
Bokeh
Light Trails
Zoom Blur
Pixel Sorting
JPEG Glitch
Time Displacement
Optical Flow Interpolation
Duotone
Gradient Map
Moiré Pattern
Depth-Map Portrait
Photogrammetry
Deepfake
Hyperlapse
Vaporwave Aesthetic
Low Poly
360° Panorama
Neural Style Transfer
GAN Portraits
Digital De-Aging
Instagram Filters
Beauty Filter
Computational Night Mode
Light Field Refocus
Deep-Fried Meme
Freelensing
Flat Design
2020s
Machine 1 · Edge & Features
Canny Edge Detection
Sobel X
Sobel Y
Sobel Magnitude
Scharr Filter
Prewitt Edges
Roberts Cross
Laplacian Edges
Laplacian of Gaussian
Difference of Gaussians
Hough Line Transform
Harris Corner Detection
Shi–Tomasi Corners
ORB Keypoints
SIFT Scale Space
Contour Extraction
Adaptive Thresholding
Otsu Binarization
Local Binary Pattern
CLAHE Local Contrast
Histogram Equalization
Kirsch Compass Edges
Hough Circle Transform
FAST Corners
HOG Gradients
Gabor Filter Bank
Frangi Ridge Filter
Structure Tensor Orientation
MSER Regions
Blob Detection
Template Matching Heatmap
Gaussian Pyramid
Machine 2 · Masks & Control
SLIC Superpixels
Graph Segmentation
Watershed Regions
GrabCut Mask
Binary Object Mask
Alpha Matte
Trimap
Segmentation Boundaries
Semantic Segmentation Map
Instance Segmentation
Bounding Box Detection
OpenPose Skeleton
Scribble Control
Line Art Control
Soft Edges
M-LSD Structural Lines
Monocular Depth Map
Normal Map
Distance Transform
Wireframe Overlay
Point Cloud Proxy
Mean Shift Segmentation
Connected Components
Skeletonization
Flood Fill
Saliency Map
Active Contour Snake
Chan–Vese Level Set
Quickshift Superpixels
Convex Hull Mask
Random Walker Segmentation
Machine 3 · Color & Quantization
Luminance Grayscale
Color Negative
Sepia Matrix
Duotone Mapping
Cyanotype Simulation
K-Means Color Quantization
Indexed Color Palette
Hue Rotation
Saturation Boost
Gamma Curve
Solarization Filter
RGB Channel Isolation
White Balance Shift
Channel Mixer
Color Inversion
Color-Blindness Simulation
Levels Stretch
Reinhard Color Transfer
HSV Channel Split
Lab Opponent Channels
Decorrelation Stretch
Machine 4 · Print & Dither
Halftone Dot Screen
Bayer Ordered Dither
Floyd–Steinberg Dither
1-Bit Threshold
ASCII Art Render
ANSI 16-Color Terminal
Nearest-Neighbor Pixelation
Voronoi Mosaic
Embossed Relief
Pencil Sketch
Charcoal Contours
Stipple Pointillism
Risograph Registration Error
Atkinson Dither
Blue-Noise Dither
Crosshatching
Mezzotint
Delaunay Triangle Mosaic
Spiral Halftone
Truchet Tiles
Cross-Stitch Pattern
Watercolor Wash
Hexagonal Pixels
Brick Mosaic
Woodcut Print
Circle Packing Mosaic
Machine 5 · Video & Glitch
VHS Tracking Noise
RGB Channel Split
Chromatic Aberration
JPEG Compression Artifacts
Block Glitch
NTSC Composite Bleed
Color Channel Noise
Scanline Displacement
Palette Glitch
Rolling Shutter Wobble
Screen Tearing
Chroma Subsampling
Bit-Plane Slicing
TV Static Snow
Bayer CFA Mosaic
Hot Pixel Noise
LCD Subpixel View
Aliasing Jaggies
Machine 6 · Space & Optics
Wave Displacement
Swirl
Fisheye Distortion
Barrel Lens Warp
Kaleidoscope Mirror
Mirror Tiling
Linear Motion Blur
Radial Zoom Blur
Tilt-Shift Miniature
Displacement Map
Liquify Brush
Bloom
Perspective Warp
Droste Recursion
Frosted Glass
Pincushion Distortion
Thin-Plate Spline Warp
Möbius Transformation
Crystal Ball Refraction
Machine 7 · Filters & Motion
Gaussian Blur
Median Filter
Bilateral Filter
Unsharp Mask
Non-Local Means Denoising
Morphological Opening
Morphological Closing
Optical Flow Vectors
Frame Differencing
Temporal Echo
Fourier Magnitude Spectrum
Fourier Low-Pass Filter
Fourier High-Pass Filter
Classical Image Inpainting
Box Blur
Kuwahara Filter
Anisotropic Diffusion
Seam Carving
Wiener Deblurring
Dark Channel Dehaze
Multi-Scale Retinex
Total Variation Denoising
Rolling-Ball Background
Morphological Gradient
