Image / Color
What does an album cover look like when you sort it by color? Rearrange an image’s pixels to reveal its palette and proportions, then turn that deconstruction into something new.
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Notes on the experiment
01 / The starting point
Image Color Clusterer began with a question: what would the cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon look like with its pixels sorted by color? That led to other album covers, and a different way of looking at familiar artwork: take apart the image and line up its colors to see how much yellow, red, blue, or black is really there.
02 / In practice
The experiment grew into a design tool. Change the sorting method, block size, and palette to explore the relationship between color and composition. Use it to study an image, find an unexpected visual direction, or create a still or looping animation from the colors already inside it.