A series of digital experiments, that fuses existing open-source images with a computer programming language (using Processing) and a technique called Pixel Sorting. Pixel Sorting is a coding method of separating a vertical or horizontal line of pixels in an image and sorting their positions into a different order. Two steps are involved: the rows/columns of the image are split into ‘intervals’, and the pixels in each interval are rearranged to sort them with respect to any property, say, brightness. The intervals are defined by regions of the image that are too light or too dark — the edges of these regions define the edges of the intervals.
All the images used in this series are originally from Wikipedia’s main page called ‘The picture of the day’. This consist of a selection of already featured pictures on Wikipedia and is automatically updated every day with one or more featured pictures. Although it is generally edited by a small group of regular editors, anyone can contribute.