Gallery: This Glitch Art Is Made of Pixels Powered by Their Own AI
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At first blush, the images created with a new software called PixelDrifter (and seen here) look like more glitch art.
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In fact, the choppy, blurred effects seen here are the result of a new method called “pixel sorting.”
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In PixelDrifter, which Russian electronic musician Dmitriy Krotevich created for fun, pixels have a 'power,' determined by their luminosity.
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Once the program is set, the powerful pixels will start to switch positions with the weakest pixels, creating these blurred effects in the process.
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That psuedo-artificial intelligence lets illustrators relinquish just enough control to get images with an organic twistedness.
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It’s a little like splatter painting, but with pixels.
