A new design tool on the block: Paper. It’s been on my radar, and recently I gave it a try for designing UIs. What caught my attention were the shaders. They’re basically filters, effects that you can apply to an image or generate based on provided parameters.

For example, I tried the Fluted Glass image filter and adjusted its parameters to explore different visual variations. What makes it terrific is its real-time processing.

And it’s animated. We can set the animation speed to 0% and download different variations of the image.

Here are a few results from a quick test. Feel free to download them if you’d like.