pixel_sort

NOTE: This is very unfinished and very much a sloppy WIP

Python Implementation of After Effects Pixel Sort Plugin https://aescripts.com/ae-pixel-sorter/

A scrappy attempt at creating something that sorts pixels in a certain 'interval' based on intensity, color band, etc.

Examples

Use

To use, simply edit the code to change the img = Image.open("YOURFILE_HERE.jpg") to point to any photo. Then run python main.py. Requires the python package Pillow

Testing

This project uses pytest for tests, to run them, just run pytest in the root of this directory

Benchmarks

A simple benchamarking file is included for perf purposes. The breakdown is as follows;

Creating Columns:     0.723
Grouping Columns:     0.473
Sort Grouped Columns: 0.331
Flatten Groups:       0.053
Recreating Picture:   0.833

Most of the time is spent breaking down the image into an array of pixels, and rebuilding that.

TODO

• Unit tests to ensure the code is actually doing what I think
• Break out more of the functions into separate files
• Re-write the sorting/bucketing code to be cleaner and clearer
• Add more CLI options (threshold, pixel color interval, etc)
• Add more ways to sort and bucket
• Use numpy arrays to hopefully gain some performance