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Neil Sainsbury

@ezainny.bsky.social
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🇦🇺 React Native | WebGPU | Math | Shaders. Creator of Photogenesis.app ~ Creative & artistic photo filters and animated effects. Writing @ neilwithdata.com

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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Kinetic Mosaic effect in Photogenesis v1.5. It took about two weeks to build ~ first prototyping in p5.js then converting to Skia. The excitation feature was fun to build - randomly spawning nodes which propagate to neighbours, increasing their brightness & velocity.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Contour Flow Field effect in Photogenesis.app One of the coolest aspects of this effect is the large number of different parameters so if you just sit there swiping left each time you see something really quite unique and beautiful.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Made a couple of small updates to the website this morning: Photogenesis.app Still much much work to do on the site but at least now slightly more representative of what the app is all about vs the initial placeholder I had for launch.
photogenesis.app
Photogenesis — Artistic Photo Filters & Animated Effects
Turn photos into artistic and creative works of art. No AI. Full creative control. Glitch art, Kuwahara filtering, flow fields, halftone effects, and more generative creative coding effects.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Some glitch contour art I made this morning by stacking the new "Stacked" effect in Photogenesis.app with the existing "Glitched" effect.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Photogenesis v1.4 is out now on the App Store! Go get it and start creating amazing creative/generative/algorithmic art from your photos like this with the new "Stacked" effect. No AI. No subscriptions. 100% local, offline, private. apps.apple.com/us/app/photo...
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just submitted new builds for iOS and Android for approval and started working on a new effect for Photogenesis to try to emulate the appearance of stitching/embroidery. Fairly happy with the results so far.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The 'Glitch' effect from Photogenesis. It's a fairly complex effect that took me a while to get right and optimize to run fast ~ involves pixel sorting, smearing, color adjustments, scanlines, confetti, block displacement, and more.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sneak peek at current WIP effect I'm working on this morning coming to Photogenesis.app soon.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My app Photogenesis.app is now available. It lets you turn your photos into creative, animated, mathematically inspired art. 100% local. No AI. Full creative control! Would love you to try it! apps.apple.com/au/app/photo...
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Art, but not using AI > #creativecoding #shaders
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Art. But not using AI >
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
One of the interesting things re: the effects I'm working on is when you start to stack them and layer multiple effects on top of each other.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New glitch art idea I've been working on today #art #creativecoding #digitalart
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Photocopy/Xerox scan photo filter effect I'm working on atm. Really quick and easy to put together but a very nice effect imo.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Have to admit, I'm kind of in love with this new photo filter effect I've been working on. The sheer variety I'm able to get out of it with various parameter changes is just awesome. #glsl #creativecoding #art
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Some of my latest works. Continues to build on my earlier work with edge detection algorithms and the neon topology pieces. #digitalart #creativecoding #art
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not sure what to call this image filter/effect. Combines lots of different things -> posterization, heavy color noise, blur, color mapping, chromatic aberration, bloom, etc.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
'Neon Topology' photo filter/effect is now production ready. Tons of parameters to control. Here's a few of my fav pics.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It still surprises me the kind of performance improvements I often see when applying spatial binning/hashing (when relevant ofc). It's completely logical and expected...but still to see 2+ sec complex effect renders drop to ~50ms is so satisfying.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Kept working on my edge detection code code and did some pretty interesting things with the canny method :-) #creativecoding #glsl
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Implementing a variety of different edge detection algorithms in my app today (just finished sobel, scharr, laplacian, canny). Testing out with a pic on my bike :-)
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Spent the morning working on a shader implementation of radial blur (like from photoshop). Implemented both spin and zoom. Ended up being rather simple and less than ~40 lines of #glsl. Nice little utility for my app.
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Stochastic Scribbler #creativecoding #digitalart #art
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Pipes and valves. #creativecoding #digitalart #p5js
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#creativecoding #art #glitchart
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Neil Sainsbury @ezainny.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Hello Bluesky! First post. I'm a Australian digital artist / mobile developer / maths enthusiast currently building an advanced photo editing app. Looking forward to sharing my art and progress here! Here's a few recent pieces I've worked on #creativecoding #art #shaders #glsl
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