PNGlitch is a library, command line tool, and website for applying random effects to PNG images.
Here's Clara Peeter's A Bouquet of Flowers and some images
generated with pnglitch-cli combined into a gif.
This crate provides the function pnglitch_core::glitch, which
pnglitch-cli and pnglitch-wasm use to mess with PNG image
data.
This crate makes a command line tool for messing with PNGs.
This one creates a Web Assembly interface for doing these transformations right in the browser.
Finally, a project that uses pnglitch-wasm and JavaScript to make a
webpage to interactively glitch out your PNGs.
There are a number of transformations pnglitch can apply to image data.
Channel swap switches the bytes of one channel for another. For example, swapping the red and green channels.
Darken halves all the byte values in the chunk.
Flip reverses the bytes in the chunk. This also effectively swaps channels around, so isn't quite as clean as making that part of the image appear upside down.
Lighten brightens the image somewhat naively by mapping each byte from 0-255 into 128-255.
Line shift rotates each line in a chunk. It honors the number of channels in the image, so channels won't be effectively swapped around.
Off by one rotates each line in a chunk, but each line by one more pixel than the last.
Quantize applies a step function to byte values, limiting them to 192, 128, 64, or 0.
Reverse reverses each line. Like flip, effectively swaps channels, so it similarly isn't quite as nice as just mirroring that part of the image.
Shift Channel works like line shift, but only applies to a single channel.
XOR generates a random byte and xors each byte in the chunk with it.
See each project's README for more.
The code in pnglitch-cli, pnglitch-core, pnglitch-wasm, and pnglitch-web are licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.