PixLens: Reality into 8-bit đź§Šđź“·
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/25/pixlens-reality-into-8-bit/
PixLens is a little acrylic cube designed by materials engineer Hakusi Katei (Monoli) that makes 16 × 16-ish mosaic—no batteries, no-screens, or post-processing required pictures. A pair of crossed cylindrical micro-facets on the front and bkack split light into rows and columns; each facet behaves like a tiny diverging lens, so every square of the area forms a chunky “pixel”.
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Went looking and the cut is an inverse pixelcut. I have cut stones before that display the effect but inside the gemstone. If I were to invert it would have that effect. Would be interesting to know the method they are using to do the facets inside the curve .