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Show HN: Pixel Sorter

3 pointsby ideopunkover 3 years ago

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ideopunkover 3 years ago
Hi HN! Pixel Sorter is a website for creating glitch art through pixel sorting. I built it over the last two weeks on request from my designer friend who noticed that there are paid apps for pixel sorting and scripts, but not a solid, free website for it.<p>It includes - Random, full image, and threshold sorting - Sorting by HSL and RGB values - Cardinal directions. - Regular and inverted masking.<p>You can get pretty cool effects with the default values, and you can get pretty precise effects through the use of inverted masking.<p>Caveat: It might panic if you try to glitch an image that&#x27;s too large. All work is done client-side on a web worker. The pro is that Pixel Sorter will always be free and you retain your privacy. The con is that the app uses enough memory to upset a browser. Incorporating generator functions to ameliorate that is on my to-do list, and hopefully that&#x27;ll be enough without learning WebAssembly.<p>Let me know what you think!<p>Blog version of this post, with images: www.conorbarnes.comm&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pixelsorter
halfdaftover 3 years ago
nice work! I love single purpose web-based image toys