We’ve been eyeing Processing for a while now and finally decided to take the plunge. The result turned out to be pretty useful (albeit not unique).

Pixerlizer in Processing from GOAB on Vimeo.

The theory is simple: load color values for all pixels of the current frame to a 2D array, sample the color value c of every nth pixel on every nth row, draw a rectangle n*n in it’s place with color c. Rinse and repeat. Performance is in all honesty pretty horrible but that seems to be inherent in the processing.movie library and my ageing Macbook. All in all, a good learning and experience and we’re already working on new Processing-stuff. Stay tuned.

Sketch is available for download here under GPL3, please let us know if you find it useful.