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Daub
This is functionally similar to the Claude glass. Taking the form of a dark tinted convex mirror it was used since the 1700s by landscape painters to simplify and reduce the tonal contrast of a view. When I was a student I would improve a similar effect by smearing Vaseline on my glasses.
phoronixrly
Oh man, I was just about to rant how now we're boiling the ocean instead of using the pixelate feature of literally every graphics editor, and then I looked up what actually is a Claude Glass... It's not that Claude.
pimlottc
I assume you meant “improvise”?
Daub
Yep I did. Too late to edit.
0_____0
Pleasantly surprised to see this isn't a GenAI thing.
yoyo_looming
There is a seller in China who sells similar products on the Xiaohongshu platform. Only sold for 50 RMB. https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/60c6ba3a00000000200...
cbzbc
I can find similar on aliexpress. Although there are two types, the plastic ones which are about this price, and the crystal ones which are more like the price of the OP.
pimlottc
For a moment I thought the “rotate to match image” captcha was the product image :P
Xen9
How do the results of such lenses compare to various compression algorhitms?
lionkor
That would be lossful compression, not sure if that's relevant
Etheryte
Lossy compression is extremely useful and you use it every day. Whether you're listening to music, having a call or looking at a video, most of the time you'll be on the receiving end of lossy compression.
lionkor
Yes, I'm aware, but we have more efficient methods of compression than just down sampling the image to like 40x40 px
mdtrooper
I wish to have a big story (related with computer games) to use this lens to record a movie.
peterpost2
Just out of curiosity since this is not my field at all, what software can do something similar?
ElectRabbit
Functionality is called "Pixelate" and almost every free picture editing software can do it.
huesatbri
Downsize then size up again with nearest neighbour interpolation. Imagemagick can do it.
Modified3019
Used to do exactly this for reference when learning how to do drawn pixel art
magic_hamster
I have a glass-based cutting borad with a certain pattern that creates this effect. It's also quite large so supposedly you could take some really interesting pictures with it. Funny, but this is the main reason I kept it around.
atombender
Do you know the brand, out of interest? But also, isn't a glass cutting board really bad for knives? The reason cutting boards are usually made from wood is that wood is slightly soft and will do less damage to the metal edge of the knife.
elcritch
I kinda want one, but big enough for a small window. Get a view without getting distracted.
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