Silk

Silk prints every picture on a hanging sheet of cloth. Each sheet is a real cloth simulation pinned along a rail at the top, moving in a light breeze, with a soft sheen along the folds and the picture showing through the fabric where light falls on its back.

How it works

The cloth is a mesh of points held together by springs, so it folds, swings and settles the way fabric does. When the gallery moves on, the outgoing sheet is let go at the rail and falls out of frame in a slow billow, and the incoming one drops from the rail and swings into stillness. The neighbours hang further back. The cursor has two modes: Breath, a breath of air that follows its movement across the cloth, and Touch, which presses into the sheet.

Settings

• Wind: strength of the breeze. At 0 the sheets hang still.
• Gravity: the weight of the cloth. High values give heavy, slow sheets.
• Drag: air resistance; higher keeps the cloth moving longer.
• Iterations: how stiff the cloth is.
• Resolution: how finely each sheet is simulated.
• Fall time: seconds a let-go sheet takes to fall away.
• Sheen: the silk shine along the folds.

Use it for

Fashion lookbooks, textile and interior brands, calm portfolio pages. For a printed fabric made of threads instead of cloth, see Loom; for paper, see Fold.