Turn a story into a Rube Goldberg journey that becomes a portrait.

From the side: a readable Goldberg board of mechanisms. From the front: the same structure aligns into an anamorphic portrait.

Open the tool How it works

Tip: GIF works best on Chrome/Edge. WebM is fastest + highest quality.

Anamorphic Story Sculpture

Portrait source

Upload portrait: If empty, a default “portrait cloud” is used.

Story → Mechanisms

Story text:

View

Parameters

Depth: Path complexity: Ball speed:

Recording

Mode: GIF FPS: GIF FPS: 15

One ball only. Mechanisms trigger instantly and animate smoothly while the ball continues.

About the project

This tool maps story beats to mechanical metaphors (dominoes, spring, stairs, pendulum, pulley, lever) and warps the 3D structure so it forms an anamorphic portrait from a frontal view.

Story mapping: sentences → beats → mechanism types + labels
One ball: continuous motion with smooth trigger animations
Recording: WebM (custom/fixed angles) or GIF export

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