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Patterned Glass Effect

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Architectural glass simulation

This tool bends your image through procedural patterned glass geometry. It recreates the optical refraction, surface highlights, and deep groove shadows of real privacy and decorative glass. The effect runs entirely in your browser without uploading your files.

Choose from curated architectural styles like cracked ice, woven reeded glass, hexagonal honeycomb, or hammered glacier. The preview updates instantly, and the downloaded image keeps your original file format.

Scale and surface relief

Pattern Scale controls the physical size of the glass cells, tiles, or ribs. Smaller values create tight, detailed textures, while larger scales produce bold, abstract architectural shapes. Relief Depth sets how aggressively the glass surface bends the image. Higher depth values create stronger refraction, deeper occlusion shadows, and brighter directional glints.

For organic styles like cracked ice or hammered glacier, Randomize Structure generates a new procedural variation of the surface. This lets you shift the pattern layout until the facets align perfectly with your subject.

Prism and color tinting

Prismatic Dispersion splits color channels along steep glass curves, creating subtle RGB fringing similar to chromatic aberration in thick glass. Keep this low for clean architectural renders, or push it higher for stylized, psychedelic edge fringing.

Tint Intensity blends a specific material color into the result, such as the warm tones of amber retro glass. Lower tint values preserve your original photo’s colors, while higher values transform the image into a colored glass material. Use the Surprise me ✨ button to quickly cycle through unexpected combinations of scale, depth, and tint.

Frequently Asked Questions

JPEG, PNG, and WebP. The downloaded image keeps the same format as your original file.

No.

Glass Style changes the baseline geometric pattern and architectural tint, such as cracked ice, woven reeded glass, hexagonal honeycomb, hammered glacier, deep waffle, vintage karatachi star, or amber woven retro glass.

Pattern Scale controls the physical size of the tiles, cells, facets, ribs, or geometric structures in the glass pattern. Smaller values create tighter detail; larger values create broader architectural shapes.

Relief Depth controls how strongly the glass surface bends the image, creates highlight glints, and adds darker occlusion shadows in deeper grooves.

Prismatic Dispersion splits color channels slightly along steep glass curves, creating subtle RGB fringing similar to chromatic aberration through thick glass.

Tint Intensity controls how strongly the selected glass style color is blended into the image. Lower values keep more original color; higher values make the glass material color more dominant.

Randomize Structure creates a new procedural pattern variation for organic styles such as Cracked Ice and Hammered Glacier while keeping your selected settings.

Yes. Once the page has loaded, the tool can work offline because the image processing happens fully in your browser.

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