Pixel Sorting

Creating glitch art effects by reordering pixels in an image based on their properties to create interesting visual effects.

In this lesson

  1. Why pixel sorting?
  2. Fundamentals
  3. Key takeaways
  4. Why WGSL?
  5. Setup
  6. Implementation
  7. Media and video inputs
  8. Bitonic sorting
  9. Experiments
  10. Notes
  11. Utilities
  12. Links to additional resources

Topics: pixel sorting · creative coding · shader programming · pixel sorting · WebGPU · WGSL · Three.JS technique · TSL · Three.JS Shading Language

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