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PixSort

After Effects Pixel Sorting Plugin · By Wunkolo

Aliasied artifacts Lines

A topic by Sébastien Labrunie created Jan 03, 2023 Views: 152 Replies: 6
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Hello and thanks for your amazing plugin ;)

I'm wondering if there is a way to get rid of these line artifacts in radial zoom mode? I'm actually getting these a lot in every modes except Linear mode.

Any idea how to solve this? 

Here are the examples :

RADIAL ZOOM Mode (aliased artifact lines)  both Bias on Luminance


LINEAR Mode (smooth result)  both Bias on Luminance

So my guess is that it's just related to the vector field used for the Radial Zoom mode? Maybe it lacks density? It would be great to have the option to add custom vector fields is possible ;)

Developer (1 edit)

This seems to be an artifact with trying to accumulate some very flowy vector-field values onto a raster pixel grid, causing it to "miss" some pixels while integrating streamlines. Basically, it will increment the current pixel into the next pixel by sampling the vector-field, but will "miss" the diagonal pixel that it may have touched along the way without knowing that it crossed two pixels rather than one. 🤔

This might take some time to figure out how to remedy without breaking previous projects(and hypothetically adding custom vector field support), but I'll try and look into it without changing the core algorithm too much.

For now, one way to remedy this is to put the PixSort on its own layer with "Interval Matte" view mode and use the "Median" filter with a 1px radius and enable the "Operate On Alpha Channel" option

Thanks for your reply and for the temp fix! I will try your fix for now, even if it's not ideal having to compose more through layers, adding a bit of rendering time.

Looking forward to a future update or a "pro" version with custom vector field support ;)

Cheers

Hi! So I tried your temp fix (Median filter) but I can't really use it in my pipeline of PostFX after some testing. Did you had time to look into it a bit? Thanks!

Hello there Wunkolo! Following up on the potential fix for the artifacts in spiral-zoom-metaphase modes. I'm sure it is super tricky to tackle. I'm still using  your fix for now with the median filter, it does the job but adds a composting layer to the comp, and soften the result accuracy a bit.

Let me know if I can help in any way to make progress on this one

Happy New Year!  Following up again! Any possible fix/updates on this issue?