Sorting starts at any pixel on this matte that is next to a black pixel and then from there it integrates all these vectors from the vector field to build up a path until it hits either a black pixel or the border of the image.

Share some sorts, or anything related. Your sorts, or others. If you haven't pixel sorted, go for it. Have fun with it. What is pixel sorting? 'Pixel Sorting is done with a program called Processing.

It takes the pixels in a digital image and places them into a semblance of order.' - Pixel sorting was made popular by an artist of the name Kim Asendorf. He began sorting by developing a code in a program called Processing. You can learn more about Kim and Processing. Any other subreddits for this kind of stuff? For arbitrary angles you could just rotate the image, sort it then rotate back nope!

I dont do that at all. Such an affine transformation applied to an image would cause it to get very very garbled and 'blurry'. I kept the algorithm as 'lossless' as possible by avoiding that. Instead what I do is I internally create an interal vector field in which each pixel's red and green channel encode a 2 dimensional direction vector. The blue channel stores the black and white threshold mask for which all sorting is to take place. Sorting starts at any pixel on this matte that is next to a black pixel and then from there it integrates all these vectors from the vector field to build up a path until it hits either a black pixel or the border of the image. The 'Max Length' option provides maximum number of intervals to take before it stops(in case it loops into itself and never terminates.

With this I can give it absolutely any vector field pattern (I have some other stuff I want to add, dipole, turbulence, etc) and it will be able to navigate any sorting interval across it. Heres a bunch of bonus images I made while I was programming it Here's some related reading material on the subject: A lot of the plugins I make are made simply to enhance my own workflow but after a while I plan to make the plugin open source on my github among other plugins (I have about 6 other ones I plan to release). The specific vector field function for a spiral I made is: F(x,y) = (-y - x/2, x - y/2) • • • • •.

PixSort brings the popular 'Pixel Sorting' algorithm into a fully motion-capable and customizable Adobe After Effects plugin. Features: Choose from several different threshold biases to carefully adjust where these intervals happen. Each threshold mask is able to be inverted, smoothened, and culled to allow an even more careful control of where your pixel sorting is taking place. • Luminance • Hue • Lightness • Saturation • Red,Blue,Green,Alpha Choose from several different biases available when sorting spams of pixels.

Sorting biases are all available in reverse orders as well. • None(for the reverse feature) • RGB Summation • RGBA Summation • Red,Blue,Green,Alpha • HSL Summation • HSLA Summation • Hue • Lightness • Saturation • Luminance • Inphase Chrominance • Quadrature Chrominance v1.1 Update! • Now supports several vector field shapes!