Prism Works runs the floor of an optical-glass studio — anneal cycles, index profiles, and dispersion QC — in an interface built from the same material it measures: glass that refracts, splits, and casts caustics.
Every plate refracts the field behind it, fringes its edge into spectrum, and reports its optical depth. Hierarchy is read off the bench, not decorated on.
Foreground plates carry full-opacity glass and the brightest spectral fringe.
Mid-depth panes lens the strata beneath, holding text at full contrast.
Quieter strata set back into the bench; the lightbox ground shows through.
Plates bend the bench behind them through real backdrop lensing — translucency that adds spatial information, never just blur.
backdrop-filter · blur(14) sat(150)Active edges split into a razor-thin red-green-blue fringe — the signature mark of an element catching and dividing light.
edge fringe · R/G/BLight focuses, not scatters. The bench beneath the glass carries woven caustic webs — bright, calm, and slow on 20-second cycles.
caustic field · 20s driftLog a blank, run the anneal, read the dispersion — every reading lives on a surface that behaves like the optics it grades.