Voxelise

Voxelise digitises an object into small cubes, then lets the cubes peel off and float away. As a front passes, the surface disappears and a cube pops in with a brief flash in its place; a moment later the cube lifts off, tumbling and shrinking as it rises. Reversed, every cube flies back and the surface re-forms.

How it works

Each cube is a real lit block that casts shadows and holds the average colour of the patch of surface it replaced, so the object stays recognisable as a blocky version of itself. With Disappear off, the default when you keep it on an object, it stays digitised as a voxel model: every cube in place, a scan line climbing the rows and a few cubes flickering.

Settings

- Resolution: how many cubes across the object's largest side. 26 by default; 6 is chunky, 70 is fine. - Float: how far the cubes drift away. - Scan colour: the flash along the front. - Direction and Pattern: where digitising starts. Bottom to top by default. - Disappear: off to keep the voxel model. - Duration: 3 seconds.

Use it for

Game and pixel-art themes, tech and data stories, the moment a real product becomes digital. Leave cube copies behind a moving object with the Voxel trail, or scan it in with Hologram scan.