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Pixel Sort · 015

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pixelSort

Pixel Sort

Brightness-driven horizontal smear.

Category: Data Corruption
Parameters: 2
Registry no.: 015 / 143

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What it reads

Frame-local Reads only the current frame, which makes it the cheapest kind to stack and safe to render into a Conjure window at any size.

Parameters

param	key	range	default
Amount	`amount`	0..1 (rendered to 2)	0.5
Threshold	`threshold`	0..0.85	0.4

The renderer widens amount past its declared maximum by 2× before it reaches the shader, because most shader bodies were tuned against a muted top end. The rendered figure is the bound that actually arrives.

Defaults as a layer

{ "effectId": "pixelSort", "params": { "amount": 0.5, "threshold": 0.4 } }

GLSL fragment shader

The effect's own code. The uniforms and helpers above it — uTex, uFeedback, the depth proxy, the frame ring, depthAt(), timeAt() — are the same header every Ether-MOSH shader opens with, and are documented once on the registry rather than reprinted on all 143 pages.

void main(){ vec2 uv=vUv; vec4 c=texture2D(uTex,uv); float lum=dot(c.rgb,vec3(0.299,0.587,0.114)); // Soft gate, and capped below 1.0: a hard step() against a threshold that // could reach 1.0 passed nothing at all, so the sort disappeared at the top // of its own range. smoothstep also gives the sort a feathered edge. float s=smoothstep(uThreshold, uThreshold+0.18, lum)*uAmount; float n=noise(vec2(uv.y*120.0,uTime*0.3)); uv.x = mix(uv.x, fract(uv.x + (n-0.5)*1.1*s + s*0.35), s); gl_FragColor = texture2D(uTex,uv); }

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