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Work · July 7, 2026

Ultrawider

Fill your ultrawide monitor with any video, faces stay round

Ultrawider launched on July 7, 2026 with 4 votes, #6,023 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

16:9 video on an ultrawide monitor means black bars eating a third of the screen. Ultrawider fills it with a non-linear warp: the center of the frame stays geometrically untouched, only the edges stretch. Faces stay round — that's the whole point. Free on YouTube forever, works on 21:9, 32:9 and anything wider

Fill your 21:9 / 32:9 ultrawide with any video — even Netflix and other DRM streams. Plain stretching makes everyone look wide; Ultrawider

Those bars on the sides? That's what every standard player gives you on a widescreen monitor. Smoothie fills every pixel without touching faces — on YouTube, Twitch, even Netflix. Left: what other “fill the screen” extensions do — uniform stretch, every face ~31% wider. Right: Smoothie — the centre stays far closer to natural while the edges carry most of the stretch. Drag the divider. The live demo needs WebGL, which your browser blocked. See the math below ↓ Every horizontal pixel is remapped by blending the identity line with Ken Perlin's quintic smootherstep — chosen because its second derivative vanishes at the endpoints, so the warp accelerates without a visible "seam"…from ultrawider.net

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