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Interactive applets that run in your browser — no install, free forever.

Free browser helpers for color science, pre-delivery QC, and display checks. Pick a tool to open it — no install required.

Tech Check

Pre-delivery QC checklist for composites — frame range, blacks, edges, grain, Inf/NaN, and more. Progress saves in your browser.

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Shot Folders

Generate a show / sequence / shot folder zip — camera, plates, renders, and DCC scenes — named to Netflix and MovieLabs conventions.

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Display Check

Probe Display P3 wide gamut and HDR support on this browser and monitor, with live signals and sRGB vs P3 swatches.

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Motion Blur

Shutter angle calculator: fps and shutter angle to open time, Nuke shutter 0.5, and multi-sample motion blur preview.

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Bit Depth & Code Budget

See how bit depth spends a limited code budget across stops — linear vs log vs PQ, integer vs half-float EXR — free VFX color science tool.

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CIE 1931

Interactive CIE 1931 xy diagram with sRGB, Display P3, Rec.2020, and ACES gamuts on the spectral locus.

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PhysLight

Drop blackbody, LED, HMI, or laser spectra on real camera R/G/B curves from Wētā Digital PhysLight data.

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Camera FOV Lab

Film back × focal length with live 3D FOV, anamorphic desqueeze, DoF CoC, and Nuke Camera export.

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OpenEXR Format Lab

File anatomy, channels/layers, half type, and compression explorer grounded in ASWF OpenEXR docs and source.

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Resample Filter Lab

Nuke-style kernels: Impulse, Linear, Cubic, Keys, Simon, Rifman, Mitchell, Parzen, Lanczos, sinc.

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Exposure Lab

Shutter, aperture, ISO, and ND in stops — linear HDR preview, clip false-color, OpenEXR export for Nuke.

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Bayer Demosaic & Chroma

Step through Bayer CFA capture, demosaic, and 4:4:4 / 4:2:2 / 4:2:0 — measured vs invented chroma, twice.

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Image Circle vs Sensor

Does the lens circle cover the gate? S35 vs FF, anamorphic oval, desqueeze, false-color unused glass vs dark corners.

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Lens Distortion Lab

Curated spherical Brown-Conrady lens values — visualize barrel, pincushion, tangential warp, paste a Nuke BlinkScript gizmo.

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Depth of Field Lab

Filmback, focal length, focus distance, and f-stop drive physical depth of field — classroom scene with thin-lens CoC bokeh.

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Pixel Sample Lab

One pixel is the mean of many primary rays. Isolate film-plane jitter, aperture walk, and shutter time.

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