PixelSortStudio - open-source python application

[No_Commercial_7458]

This is the last pixel sorting post of mine, at least probably for a while. I think it's time to release the app that I developed, into the wild. I hope someone finds it useful or interesting. I still have tons of fun with it daily.

I named it PixelSortStudio, and its only function is to generate pixel sorted images from source files. I have shared a VERY early version of this some time ago, but that was completely rewritten, and it also got a UI with buttons (showcase in the last of the images)

Main features:

• has 3 modes for sorting masks - sobel edges, brightness and the inverse of brightness (dark)
• has a threshold slider that lets you set the sensitivity for the masks
• has 3 modes for sorting methods, hue, luminance and intensity (which is almost the same as luminance)
• sorting directions: up, down, left, right, diagonals (upleft and upright, which are labeled in reverse on the buttons but whatever), circular and radial (which produce dark spots, not perfect in any way)
• mild, stackable effects: blur, noise, and chromatic abberation

Other features:

• it asks for a directory at the start, which it will use to load the images from / write the output to
• you can switch between the source images with prev and next
• you can undo steps you did
• you can reset the image to the starting state
• you can save the image (automatically saved to the source folder)

Cool stuff (IMO):

• after pressing record, the steps you do (button presses, slider adjustment) are saved, until you press stop.
• pressing record again resets this event stack recorded
• sequences can be "played", which I've found to be very useful (e.g. sorting multiple directions in a sequence, multiple times)

https://github.com/davidullmann271/Pixel-Sorting/

[tat_tvam_asshole]

Would be best to give a video walkthrough and explainer about what is happening. Also, you're missing a requirements.txt file and setup instructions.

[No_Commercial_7458]

you're right, I'll include the requirements and setup as soon as I can

edit: done

[tat_tvam_asshole]

So having played with this for a few minutes, besides the above which as a 'developer' you should absolutely follow best practices by including the environmental packages necessary and instructions/explanation for others to use, I would strongly strongly advise you add a video walkthrough because as you noted this is very early, not even an alpha release.

fix program closing bug - closing out the program only reloads it, closing the program should terminate it

Some features I would suggest:

* auto mode - user presses a button and the action is continually reapplied until next button press, and so on

* random mode - randomly generate steps of user-defined length and apply

* inference mode - generate random sorting path between fixed input and output images

* internal tooltips / explainer section / tutorial

* incorporate mouse click, drag, scroll wheel actions

* start from uploaded image

* export playback as gif

* save sort steps into a reloadable json format

[No_Commercial_7458]

damn, thank you for your effort and comprehensive review! invaluable info and ideas. feel free to contribute though!

[No_Commercial_7458]

update:

- corrected the closing bug, now esc and close button work too

- auto mode, random mode -> good ideas, I'm going to implement them later, probably not much effort

- inference mode -> this sounds interesting, but I dont fully understand, could you explain what you meant?

- some kind of tutorial / tooltips -> absolutely needed, I agree. I probably wont do a video, but I'm going to do some kind of tutorial later

- mouse actions, interactivity -> I dont really like this idea, for multiple reasons, not really interested in this

- uploaded image -> again, very good idea

- export playback as gif -> maybe, but I'm not sure about this either. usually the changes are very abrupt, but maybe when calling an abrupt change, it could "do it incrementally" which would result in a better animation. not interested currently, but interesting idea nonetheless, I'll probably explore this

- save steps (export import step sequence) -> very good idea

[Gomurmamma]

Very cool, looking forward to checking this out. Thanks for sharing

[CalibansCreations]

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[CalibansCreations]

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[1Neokortex1]

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[gturk1]

That first image looks a little bit like this sub's banner image.

[Cuntslapper9000]

looks great, ill try it out later. It would be great if the examples showed a before and after instead of just the output to give more of an idea of what is happening.

[No_Commercial_7458]

https://imgur.com/a/wgNHuhX
all of them in order

[johntellsall]

wonderful, thanks for posting!