A drone seen from below against an overcast sky, its propellers bent into curves by a phone camera's rolling shutter.

Lab · Maquette 03

Shutter

A phone reads its sensor one row at a time, top to bottom, so each row sees the propellers a moment later than the row above. That is why phones film rotors bent, broken and standing still.

Rotor6,325 rpm

Readout20.0 ms

Shutter1/16000

Released
15 October 2026
Rotors
From the Terne X case
Tech
three.js, GLSL, Web Audio
Code
Open source, MIT ↗︎

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