Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to ESPER LightCage

Professional photogrammetry light stage for face scanning

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ESPER LightCage launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper▲386

   2019 · eschersket.ch · its alternatives →

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   Light L16 Camera▲338

   16 cameras in one, 52-megapixel photos, 4K video 😳

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Lightform▲190

   The design tool for projected AR

   2018 · lightform.com · its alternatives →

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   Coelux▲323

   Artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real

   2015 · coelux.com · its alternatives →

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   Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project▲442

   2019 · stavros.io · its alternatives →

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   lightgallery▲146

   A modern image viewer for Mac, Windows and Linux.

   2016 · sachinchoolur.github.io · its alternatives →

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   lightGallery▲78

   Full-featured JavaScript image and video gallery

   2021 · lightgalleryjs.com · its alternatives →

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   A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R▲198

   2018 · tylermw.com · its alternatives →

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   Scanse sweep▲80

   A scanning LiDAR sensor

   2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame▲154

    This is version 2 of my ongoing heirloom device project, a digital photo frame built with the goal of lasting longer than your typical gadget. There's a part of me that wishes to commercialize a polished version of this product, but the more I speak to people, the more I become convinced that I belong to a very small minority.

    2023 · jamez.it · its alternatives →

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    Lightmeter▲130

    Film Camera designed for everyday moments

    Sep 2026 · shotonlightmeter.com · its alternatives →

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    Virtual Sun▲101

    We built CircadianLab, a free in-browser tool for lighting design. It uses webGPU shaders to calculate melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance (mel-EDI, formerly EML, relevant for circadian rhythm and WELL v2 compliance), photopic illuminance, UGR glare per CIE 117, and actual daylight through windows and skylights. It has a database of 400,000+ IES files from 81 lighting manufacturers and supports easy sharing of scenes/configs with other people. Daylight uses the NREL Solar Position Algorithm and a Perez clear / intermediate / overcast sky model, mixed into the same…

    2020 · innerscene.com · its alternatives →

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    ellum▲97

    A beautiful motion sensing light

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown▲176

    The latest 3Blue1Brown video [1] about the M. C. Escher print gallery effect inspired me to re-implement the effect as WebGL fragment shader on my own. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

    Apr 2026 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →

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    Room Scanner▲146

    Generate floor plans & models

    2024 · roomscanner.app · its alternatives →

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    Photogrammetry of Seattle landmarks rendered in WebGL▲25

    An interactive tour of four Seattle landmarks reconstructed using photogrammetry and presented in 3D with dynamically-projected photographic textures.

    2022 · arcsineimaging.com · its alternatives →

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    Fragment▲115

    Prismatic Photos

    2013 · pixiteapps.com · its alternatives →

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    I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU▲131

    This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nix Pro Color Sensor▲92

    The Photoshop eye dropper tool in real life!

    2015 · nixsensor.com · its alternatives →

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    PhotoG▲76

    Transforming real-world objects into stunning AI visuals

    2024 · photog.art · its alternatives →

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    LightTable SX▲68

    Create a virtual canvas to layout, inspect & compare images.

    2019 · einsteinslegacy.com · its alternatives →

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    Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data▲44

    Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), running design calculations against EN 13201 / ANSI/IES RP-8 / CJJ 45 / IES-IDA MLO, and (the part I most want to show off here) rendering real urban scenes in Bevy with the photometric data driving actual streetlight behavior, including sky-glow contribution. The Skyglow Analysis demo loads a real LDT file into a Bevy scene (Khronos Bistro test asset). The luminaire's intensity distribution…

    May 2026 · iesna.eu · its alternatives →

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    VH-80▲84

    The world's first bilateral laser distance measurer

    2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20▲75

    International Space Station Tracker on an ESP32 CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) costing $20. Live update over Wifi, touchscreen, backlight power management. Cheap and interesting classroom STEM project. Fully open source.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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