Tripper Spiral calls Google's Gemini image model directly from your browser.
You'll need your own API key — get one free at
Google AI Studio.
Image generation requires billing to be enabled on your Google account.
Your key is saved only in this browser (localStorage) and sent nowhere except Google's API.
What is Tripper Spiral?
Every image generation model hallucinates. Usually this is treated as a flaw to suppress. But what if we make it hallucinate on purpose?
Upload an image to Tripper Spiral and it will imagine what is just out of frame – panning the camera and generating the result again and again and again. Each invented frame becomes the sole input for the next, with no memory of the original. By the time the camera has completed a full revolution, you're no longer where you started. In the absence of suitable visual input and context, the pattern recognizer does not shut down, it goes on a trip:
