Levi Foster
Independent app developer and artist · Fort Worth, Texas
I am Levi Foster. I build iPhone apps and make things with code, mostly at the point where photography stops being a picture and starts being a process. Some of it ships on the App Store. The rest ends up as prints.
The apps share a bias. I would rather simulate the thing than approximate the look of it, which is slower and more awkward and gets results a preset cannot. That is the whole idea behind FRMT and CYANO, and it is why MODUL8 models broken hardware instead of drawing coloured lines over your photo.
Work
Harmony Palette
A colour tool for iPhone and iPad. An interactive wheel in both the RGB model a screen actually uses and the RYB model a painter was taught, eight harmony types, 160 curated palettes, a contrast checker that tells you which pairs are legible, and export straight to SwiftUI, CSS, Tailwind, SVG or PDF.
FRMT: Film Simulation
A film simulation camera for iPhone. It models the photographic process itself rather than applying a colour filter: light scattering through the emulsion, dye layers holding each other back, grain forming where the light actually landed. Four stocks, built from published manufacturer measurements, developed from a RAW negative on the device.
MODUL8: Glitch Art Effects
A glitch art app for iPhone. Nineteen stackable effects, each modelled on a specific way real hardware used to fail: VHS tracking loss, CRT phosphor bloom, datamosh block corruption, pixel sorting, channel separation. Reorder the layers and the picture changes.
CYANO: Cyanotype Photos
A cyanotype app for iPhone. It runs the chemistry of the 1842 sunprint process instead of tinting the picture blue: the paper is blind to red and green, so two colours a camera recorded as equally bright come out at opposite ends of the print. No darkroom, no chemicals, no printer.
Dollop
A color mixing game for iPhone. You are given a color and you mix it, out of paint that behaves like paint: blue and yellow make green here, not the gray two screen colors would average to. Five modes, a creature that hatches out of your first match, and nothing in it that hurries you.
Merge With The Machine
An art project about the line where human imagination meets machine generation. Generated visuals, experimental tools, and a print shop.
Elsewhere
Contact
Email [email protected]. That reaches me directly.