Sorter.py

A Python module generating cool pictures by sorting an input image's pixels.

Demo pictures

Some images the module generated can be found here : https://goo.gl/photos/vJhFu4Q5k5uihKxy6

How to install

Python environnement

You need python 3.x correctly installed and configured in order to run this script. I strongly recommend using the 64 bits version if your system architecture have x64 capabilities. Having pip installed is also recommanded, becauses it makes packages installation painless. pip should be delivered with the python 3.x installer.

Dependancies

To install python package foobar with pip, you just have to type pip install foobar in a terminal with root privileges.

• The PIL, Python Imaging Library. pip install pillow
• The multiprocess module. pip install multiprocess
• The Kivy GUI library optional. pip install kivy

How to use

GUI

A Graphical User Interface is in progress. However, it's quite buggy and incomplete so I don't recommend using this for the moment. If your quite crazy, just run sorter-gui.py and check it out.

CLI

In fact, the Command Line Interface is not avalaible yet.

Python call

For the moment, I recommend importing the main function in a python shell (from sorter import sort), or editing sorter.py directly.

In a python shell

The only function you'll have to call is sort. In fact, the simplest call you may do is simple as sort(Image.open('niceImageFile.jpg')) (obviously you'll need to do a from PIL import Image first). sort can take a lot of optional arguments, each one is described in code documentation.

By editing the module

At the end of it, you'll find a if __name__ == '__main__': statement. Just edit it to match your needs. Some exemples are present. You can do various things such as animation, multiprocessing of several images, interactive mode, or video frames computation. Warning ! For the moment, all commented exemples are old legacy exemples for reference. Only the uncommented code is working as is.