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Inflatable Effect

Hand it a photograph and it comes back inflated — the same thing sewn from panels and blown up, so every surface bulges and every seam pulls in, because that is the only shape air makes. Two fields.

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ExamplesOne photograph in · one inflated object out · every panel bulging, every seam pulling in
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Brick house
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Armchair

We made two examples, from two different photographs: a brick house and an armchair. The house is full of corners that have to turn into seams; the armchair is already soft, so it shows whether the pressure setting really does anything.

You get your photo with the object turned into an inflatable: every surface is a dome, every corner is two bulges meeting at a seam pulled inward, and the seams are the only lines. Details smaller than a panel disappear or go flat, and the surroundings stay untouched. The pressure field works: name a slack part, such as the seat cushion, and it comes out with soft wrinkles between its seams.

Generated for this library

Input
  Pressure    hard enough that the roof is tight and
              drum-like, but the porch is still slightly
              slack
  Material    matt orange ripstop nylon, one panel per
              wall and one per roof slope, seams along
              every corner
  Photograph  house.png (1254 x 1254)

Returned   1 image · 1:1 · the house, inflated

bulges     every wall and roof slope is a dome, the
           chimney a fat tube
seams      pulled inward along every corner, and they
           are the only lines on the object
pressure   the field bound - the chair's back is tight
           and drum-like, its seat cushion wrinkles
detail     windows became flat silver panels, and the
           chair's legs disappeared
place      garden, fence, floor and wall untouched
words      none, in any script
SKILL.mdthe whole thing, as you would paste it© vibary.ai

You fill in 2 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.

  1. 1How hard it is blown up, said against a part of the object
  2. 2The material and how the panels are laid out

Inflatable Effect

What this makes

Hand it a photograph and it comes back inflated — the same thing sewn from panels and blown up, so every surface bulges and every seam pulls in, because that is the only shape air makes. Two fields.

The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.

How to use it

  1. Copy the whole template with the button above.
  2. Attach the photograph and paste the template in the same message.
  3. Replace the two FIELDS lines. Lay the panels out along the object's real edges — that is where a maker would put them.
  4. Look at a corner. It should be a pulled-in seam between two bulges, never a sharp edge.
  5. Check the pressure reads. A slack part should wrinkle and a tight part should be smooth and drum-like; if everything looks the same, the run made a solid model.

What you swap

How hard it is blown up, said against a part of the object
hard enough that the roof is tight and drum-like, but the porch is still slightly slack
The material and how the panels are laid out
matt orange ripstop nylon, one panel per wall and one per roof slope, seams along every corner

Before it runs

  • A photograph, attached to the message, of a thing rather than a scene. This inflates one object, and a street does not inflate.
  • A subject with a shape worth rounding. Something already soft and round barely changes; something angular becomes funny.
  • A panel layout you have thought about. The seams are the drawing, and 'some seams' will get you a smooth blob with a few lines on it.
  • Acceptance that detail goes. Anything smaller than a panel cannot exist, so lettering, handles, windows and trim all disappear or become a seam.

When to reach for it

When something should look soft, large and faintly absurd: a title card, a cover, a shop display, a poster, a toy. Templates in this genre ask for an inflatable or balloon version and hand back a smooth glossy 3D model — a rounded shape with no seams, which is a shape air has never made.

What changes

  • One photograph in, one inflated object out — sewn from panels and blown up.
  • Every panel bulges outward and every seam pulls inward, which is the only thing pressure can do.
  • Detail below the size of a panel disappears, because a seam is the smallest mark available.
  • The material behaves like fabric: it creases near seams, it stretches thin over the fullest curves, and it wrinkles where it is slack.
  • One image, no type, no border, no shop, no hands.

Pairs with