Pixel Sorting
Pixel sorting is the signature glitch-art move: reorder a run of pixels by brightness and the
picture smears into streaks that still trace its original shapes. TileOps runs the whole pixel sort
family inside each tile rather than across the whole frame, so a streak stops at a tile edge instead
of running the full width of the image. Sort Rows and Sort Columns give the classic streaky pixel-sort,
Sort Radial throws it outward from the tile centre, and Sort Tiles reorders the tiles themselves by
brightness without disturbing the pixels inside them.
Halftone and Screen Effects
Every screen is drawn per tile from that tile's own tone, so a halftone can change its angle, pitch
and shape across a single image instead of sitting at one fixed setting. Halftone Dot and Halftone Line
are the print-shop classics, with Crosshatch, Contour, Rings, Spiral, Squares and Burst working the same
way through a different mark. Turing grows a reaction-diffusion pattern out of the image itself, Maze
draws the diagonal walls of the classic 10 PRINT one-liner, and Circuit lays board traces that meet
across shared tile edges.
Bit-Level Effects and Databending
Databending means treating a picture as raw data and corrupting it on purpose. These operators do it
deliberately rather than by accident: Bitwise XOR, Bit Shift, Bit Rotate, Nibble Swap, Bit Reverse,
Gray Code and Bit Plane rewrite the actual bits of each channel, so what you get is the real artifact
rather than a filter imitating one. Channel Shift offsets the red, green and blue channels independently
for an RGB split, the chromatic aberration look, with the amount randomised per tile.
The other way to bend a picture is to play it:
Kayrock Synthesthesia reads an image as audio and runs a real
effects chain over it, inside Photoshop.
Geometric and Mosaic Effects
The grid is an effect in its own right. Tiles can be rectangles at any aspect ratio, or hexagons,
triangles and diamonds, and every operator works on every shape, so a mosaic can be a brick wall, a
honeycomb or a tessellation of triangles. Kaleidoscope, Pinwheel, Mirror Tile and Fold Edges build
symmetry out of each tile, Compound Eye turns the grid into a fly's-eye lens array, and Quadtree
subdivides each tile into a smaller grid of itself.
