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Subdivide

Break the layers below into blocks that keep splitting, by chance or by detail

Pixelating flattens a picture to one size of square. This breaks it into blocks of many sizes at once: the frame starts as a few big plates, and each one decides whether to split in two — then those split, and so on. On Chance the arrangement is a roll of the dice and can be re-rolled to the beat; on Detail the picture decides, so flat areas keep their big plates while busy ones shatter into small ones and the blocks land on the subject. It is the quadtree — the same recursive carve-up early image compression used — turned into a composition: part Bauhaus poster, part compression artifact. Turn the rule up and the blocks get the black lines to go with it.

I. Made with Subdivide

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