technique

luminance-driven pixel mapping

Converting every source-image pixel to a single greyscale luminance value, then mapping that value onto a rendered mark's stroke weight, size or rotation to rebuild the image out of many small shapes.

Also called: pixel-to-shape image mapping

What it is

How it works

Parameters & tuning

Where it’s been used

Variants & neighbours

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Connected to

Contrast with: Software mirror (pixelated video-to-grid mapping) · position-to-hue colour mapping


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