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Grain

Film grain noise, optionally animated

A fine layer of moving speckle, modeled on the grain of photographic film. Counterintuitively, a touch of noise makes digital work feel warmer and more ‘real’ — it hides banding and adds that analog texture screens lack.

I. Made with Grain

  • daft punk by @goodbytes
  • Spectrum Rip by @goodbytes
  • alphabet series / Q by @goodbytes
  • Nocturne No. 01 — Half Moon by @goodbytes
  • alphabet series / H by @goodbytes
  • alphabet series / A by @goodbytes
  • 404 by @goodbytes
  • Recreating a demo by Tomoyuki Nakata / Codrops by @goodbytes
  • flow state copy by @goodbytes
  • flow state by @goodbytes
  • 光線 / Kosen — rays to a single point by @goodbytes
  • Breeze — hero plate 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
  • Glyph Dither — ASCII/glyph rendering of the layers below, by brightness
  • 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
  • Subdivide — Break the layers below into blocks that keep splitting, by chance or by detail

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