# Glitch × Pixel Sorting — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=glitch+pixel-sorting
# Glitch carries the structure and Pixel Sorting appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Glitch (style, digital) and their accent from Pixel Sorting (technique, 2010–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Glitch exists for: expressing uncertainty and system failure, or A jolt of tension in music and video. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Glitch

- Channel shift
- Block noise
- Scanlines
- Dropout

Composition: Build the healthy composition first, then break part of it. Type and lettering: Partially corrupt a monospace or plain sans.

## Accent comes from Pixel Sorting, used sparingly

- Long horizontal or vertical pixel streams leaving a figure or landscape
- Only part of an outline flowing into bands
- Unselected areas preserving the source image
- Local color bands smoothly ordered by value or hue

Let one material quality come from it: Select pixels by value, saturation or hue and reorder only contiguous intervals within a row or column.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #24c8e6, carry the structure in #f43d73 and #111217, and let a single accent come from #00A8C6. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: futurity, rebellion, technique, play.

## What goes wrong

- Glitch: Perpetual glitch loses meaning. Stage the difference between normal and broken.
- Pixel Sorting: Sorting the entire frame removes the tension with its source and leaves an ordinary striped pattern. Decide what breaks and what remains.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/glitch/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/pixel-sorting/design.md