During PIFcamp, Simon Goričar will continue experimenting in the field of pixel sorting, a set of techniques for creating glitchy images (more generally known as glitch art). His early explorations have shown intriguing seeds of promise. He wishes to build improved tools and explore pixel sorting methods, both as a way of obtaining even more interesting results, as well as a way of removing dependence on proprietary tools.
The project has several goals:
– to discover and document various ways of pixel sorting that more commonly give pleasant and good results,
– to build a Rust library for creative image effects using pixel sorting, which will be eventually open-sourced,
– to capture a wide array of source material, focused mostly on nature and structures around PIFcamp, and
– to put to the test alternative ways of post-processing and combining pixel sorting outputs using open-source image editors.
Simon Goričar is primarily a software engineer, but also an aspiring musician and, more recently, a music live-coder who has appeared a few times at local from-scratch sessions in Ljubljana this year. With a passion for open source, open data, and “software-for-good” as a means of disentangling oneself from tech giants, he hopes to build software as a means of improving quality of life.
When not actively engaged in his project or hiking around with a camera, he will undoubtedly be inquisitively wandering around PIFcamp and trying to learn as much as possible. Hopefully some evening live coding jams will calm his spirit!