Pixel Sorting
ピクセルソーティング / 2010– / Technique / Digital Image Techniques
Pixel Sorting selects image pixels by a brightness or hue threshold and reorders them within rows or columns, drawing long color streaks out of a still-recognisable source image. Kim Asendorf's released code enabled widespread reimplementation.
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
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Covers and posters that damage part of a photograph while keeping the subject legible · Transitions that turn a frame's color distribution into bands leading into the next shot
- Type
- Keep copy outside the sorted field, or flow only part of a headline along the same axis while preserving body legibility.
- Composition
- Choose one sorting direction, tune the threshold to the subject and preserve islands of the source image.
- Material
- Select pixels by value, saturation or hue and reorder only contiguous intervals within a row or column.
- Caution
- Sorting the entire frame removes the tension with its source and leaves an ordinary striped pattern. Decide what breaks and what remains.
- Further study
- Kim Asendorf and Mountain Tour / Threshold and interval selection / Row, column and diagonal sorting
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