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Glyph Dither

ASCII/glyph rendering of the layers below, by brightness

Same idea as dithering, but the dots are little characters or glyphs. Darker areas get denser, heavier symbols; lighter areas get sparse ones — so an image is rebuilt entirely out of type. It’s the ASCII-art look, equal parts retro terminal and concrete poetry.

I. Made with Glyph Dither

  • warni warni by @goodbytes
  • before it vanishes by @goodbytes
  • cara typography tilt shift by @goodbytes
  • purple species by @goodbytes
  • sun26 by @goodbytes

II. Everything else

  • Blob Tracker — Locks targeting marks onto what moves below
  • Contour — Detects edges with a Sobel filter and draws them as clean outlines
  • Dither — Ordered dithering of the layers below (duotone or reduced color)
  • Glitch — Row displacement and scanline injection
  • Grain — Film grain noise, optionally animated
  • Halftone — Rebuilds the image as a rotated grid of ink dots, lines or squares
  • Pixelate — Snap coordinates to a coarse block grid
  • Posterize — Quantize luminance into a flat color palette

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