There is a lot of ideas out there and a lot of things to come in further free updates! This first version is released to make pixel sorting in After Effects available as quickly as possible. I’m very happy to release this plugin, hoping it will help generating awesome images with an innovative look. Pixel sorting effects adds a fresh take on ditigal glitch art and goes well with any glitches and datamoshing! Experimenting with pixel sorting algorithms just became so much easier! You can choose and animate all the classic pixel sorting modes, play with the threshold and get near-live feedback of what you’re doing. Updated version 1.1 with new features !ĪE Pixel Sorter is the first tool that makes pixel sorting available for motion designers and video editors.
If you do anything with it I’d love to see it!Įdit: The script was used to make this music video.AE Pixel Sorter lets you create and experiment with pixel sorting in After Effects with ease. It shouldn’t be too hard to use, details are in REAMDE.md.
On the bottom left is the image with sorted intervals.Īll the images in this article were generated using a pixel sorting script I wrote in python – source here. On the bottom left is the image with the intervals filled in with random colors – each color represents a different interval. Notice that the foam – too light – and the shadows – too dark – are outside the threshold. The top right is the image with pixels outside the lightness threshold replaced with black, and the rest filled in with white. The intervals are defined by regions of the image that are too light or too dark – the edges of these regions define the edges of the intervals. Kim Asendorf’s code simply applies this technique twice: first vertically, then horizontally. The pixels in each interval are rearranged so as to sort them with respect to some property, say, lightness. The rows/columns of the image are split into ‘intervals’ (more on this later). They propose using it as a technique for unsupervised classification, to be applied to images from remote sensing satellites. Neat! The earliest reference to pixel sorting I could find on the internet is this paper ( PDF) by scientists from Iraq’s Scientific Research Council. The processing script was cryptic and not very hackable, and I felt like something more lightweight was needed, so I wrote my own version in python – more info on GitHub. It was popularized (possibly invented) by artist Kim Asendorf (processing source code here). Pixel sorting is an interesting, glitchy effect which selectively orders the pixels in the rows/columns of an image. Pixel Sorting Introducing order in a disordered way can make for some great glitch art.
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