Project Description
Foto Recipe is an intelligence system that is inspired by what my Fujifilm X-S20 actually does when it adds film simulation. Instead of writing about the "intelligence" behind it, I built a working version of an extractive logic. Upload a photo and it reads it the way the camera would: a 5-zone tone curve (blacks, shadows, midtones, highlights, whites), real white balance/temperature, exposure, contrast, dynamic range, and grain, all pulled from the actual pixels, no presets. From that, it generates three things: a "developed pattern," an abstract, textile-looking pattern built from the photo's own real colors and tones, so it's basically a visual fingerprint of the image; a vintage-style recipe receipt that translates the readout into plain language plus the full technical settings; and a recipe chart with a pie chart of the tone zones and sliding gauges for saturation and warm/cool temp. The whole site is styled like an old-school desktop: beveled windows, pixel cursor, draggable pop-ups, so the camera's invisible math feels tactile instead of hidden in a menu. You can save recipes to 'the collection' and pull them back up later with the original photo, pattern, and receipt all together. Basically: making the camera show its work.