# Video Artifacts

> An interactive English-language handbook that explains image artifacts from physical cause through mathematics and GPU implementation to a live experiment.

Author: George Ostrobrod
Canonical publication: https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/
Primary language: English
Content license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Code license: MIT

## Reading model

The book reads from image system → device → component → physical effect. Tags are discovery aids. Effect articles normally follow: visible effect → physics → mathematics → shader → playground → notes.

## Primary routes

- [System map](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/atlas): Follow film, analog electronic, and digital image paths from scene light to reproduced light.
- [Browse](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/browse): Find published entities by tag.
- [Search](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/search): Search titles, summaries, and tags.
- [License](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/license): Content, code, and media licensing boundaries.

## Published handbook pages

- [Lens system](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/components/lens-system): The groups of glass, mechanics, and aperture that form an image.
- [Camera](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/devices/camera): A shared optical front end followed by film, analog electronic, or digital capture.
- [Radial distortion](https://artifacts.gostrobrod.dev/effects/radial-distortion): Why straight lines bend near the edge of a real lens — and how to reproduce the mapping in a shader.

## Interpretation notes

- Interactive playgrounds are explanatory approximations, not camera-calibration tools.
- Media assets retain asset-specific provenance and licensing.
- Telegram posts are provenance for migrated material, not publication pages.