A real-time WebGL glitch + AI camera FX studio. True CPU Asendorf pixel sort, GPU datamosh, kaleidoscope chained through nine radial UV warps, 40+ generators, on-device MediaPipe Face FX, GEN+CAM live composite, native Save / Load Project, audio-reactive racks, MIDI / VJ control, projector mode.
Computational vision engine · pipeline: active · fx: multi-layer · audio: reactive
I built this because I wanted it.
This is evolving into a single instrument that can datamosh a live cam, run a real Asendorf row-sort, fold it through a kaleidoscope, datamosh that, and paint pixel cells over the top — while hooking up to a projector (projector mode), VJing (MIDI + audio-react), and spitting out a 9:16 GIF.
Glitch Pixel Studio sits in the middle — every effect is a knob you turn while pointing the lens at something. Stack them, automate them, audio-react them, save the patch.
— LOVEBEING
LIVE CAPTURE · NO POST
- NEW — brand-new app icon and logo across every Android launcher density, iOS AppIcon set, splash screens, PWA, and web favicon.
- NEW — native Save / Load Project. Full session snapshots written to
Documents/GlitchPixelStudio/projects/*.gpswith one-tap Share to Drive, Dropbox, Discord, Telegram, anywhere. - FIX — GEN+CAM rock-solid across all source switches. The CAM → GEN transition no longer collapses the live composite back to plain generator output.
- FX — Face FX on-device MediaPipe selfie segmentation: FACE mode keeps the person clean while the background glitches; BG mode wraps the person in glitch and leaves the world raw. 12-offset ring dilation + motion blur for clean edges at ~15 Hz.
- UX — Hard Reset Camera for instant recovery, pull-to-quick-reset gesture, expanded Vision Mode Lab, and remembered session state across launches.
ON-DEVICE · NO CLOUD · NO ACCOUNT · WORKS IN AIRPLANE MODE
Synth-style UI, built for one-thumb performance
Every rack collapses, every knob is gated, every session persists.
Twelve dedicated synth-style racks
Every knob is gated, every uniform is single-source, every session persists.
REAL ASENDORF PIXEL SORT
Not a UV displacement fake — a true CPU row-sort at 256×144 @ 20 Hz, sampled back into TEXTURE5 as uSortTex and gated by a single REALSORT master knob. Luma-keyed (Y << 24 | localIndex) so the streaks read as light/dark runs, not blue-channel noise. AMOUNT, LOW/HIGH, SEGMENT, NOISE, WOBBLE, TEAR, MODE (LINE / SPIRAL / BLOCK / SLICE / HILBERT), INTERVAL gate, ANGLE — all sculpted within the REALSORT envelope.
GPU DATAMOSH RACK
Twelve dedicated controls: I-FRAME freeze, MOTION bleed, COMPRES (DCT-style block crush), MAP (motion-vector reuse), BLOCK glitch, LIQUID feedback, CHRASH (MPEG smear), FEEDBACK loop, plus SOFT/HARD modes. Linear 0–2 INTENS so the top half of the slider keeps doing work — no dead zone.
KALEIDO + 9 RADIAL UV WARPS
KALEIDO chains into nine stacked radial warps — TILE, DROSTE, SPIRAL, YANTRA, MANDALA, ROSETTE, STARFOLD, HEXFOLD, INVERT-SYM. Each is an independent mask-gated UV transform you can stack like a modular synth patch. Combos that don't exist anywhere else.
40+ GENERATORS
Bayer dither, halftone, mosaic, voronoi, plasma, ASCII (ertdfgcvb glyph atlas), hex, weave, truchet, stripes, brick, diamond — plus L-systems, reaction-diffusion, boids, particle life, DLA, and a CPU sphere-traced SDF stack. Every generator pipes through the full FX rack.
CAMERA-NATIVE, RIG-FRIENDLY
Front or rear camera streams straight into the shader at full GPU speed via getUserMedia. Plays nicely with anamorphic adapters (Moondog, Sirui, Beastgrip), clip-on macro lenses, gimbal rigs, and external HDMI capture devices presenting as UVC. NATIVE / 9:16 / 1:1 / 16:9 export aspects so your anamorphic squeeze stays intact.
MIDI · AUDIO REACTIVE · VJ
Live mic FFT — bass / beat / level — modulates uSortAmt, uDatamosh, uRGBDrift, generator hue, and rack visibility. MIDI CC mappings for hands-on VJ control, livestream-friendly, single-pass uniform writes so latency stays under one frame.
PROJECTOR MODE
Dedicated full-screen output with chrome stripped and edge-fade for clean projection mapping. Drive it from the same browser that's running the rack, or fan it out to a second display.
GIF + VIDEO EXPORT
STD / HIGH / ULTRA quality presets, 24/30/60 fps, perfect-loop or full-length, 5/15/30/60 second windows. GIF path uses a quantized palette; video path uses MediaRecorder with optional microphone audio. Hold-the-canvas gesture also records.
PRESETS · QUICK-SLOTS · SESSIONS
Save the patch. Stack racks, automate them, audio-react them, hot-swap from quick-slots. Full session persistence across reloads. Bring up a saved live-set in seconds.
WEBGL1 SINGLE-PASS PIPELINE
One fragment shader, ~3000 lines of GLSL, ~80 uniforms. Hoisted scratch buffers (Uint32Array(SW=256)) keep GC quiet during sort runs. Auto-quality fallback maps to your device — runs smooth on a Pixel 4 and lights up an M-series rig like a Christmas tree.
How a frame travels through the studio
Five hops from sensor to export. The shader does the heavy lifting; the CPU sort runs as a sidecar so it never blocks the render loop.
getUserMedia → HTMLVideoElement → glTexImage2D upload at the device's native resolution. Front, rear, or any UVC capture device.
When a generator layer is armed, a procedural canvas composites with the camera feed before the shader pass — so the rack glitches the composite, not just the cam.
One fragment shader runs all enabled racks: pixel sort → datamosh → kaleido + radials → RGBNDR → color → output. ~80 uniforms updated per frame.
When REALSORT > 0, a 256×144 luma-keyed Asendorf row-sort runs at 20 Hz on the CPU and uploads its result to TEXTURE5. The shader blends it back via uSortMix.
MediaRecorder for video (with optional mic), framewise readPixels into a quantized palette for GIF. Output respects your chosen aspect — 9:16 stays 9:16.
Plays nicely with serious glass
Built like a modular synth
Every effect is its own panel. Every panel is independent, gated, and persists across sessions. Stack them, save patches as presets, assign them to quick-slots. Tap to capture, hold the canvas to record.
- PIXEL SORT — REALSORT master + 8 sculpt knobs
- DATAMOSH — 12 controls, SOFT/HARD modes
- KALEIDO + 9 RADIAL FX (TILE → HEXFOLD)
- RGBNDR — analog VGA channel-bender
- PIXEL DRAWER — paint living glitch cells
- ASENDORF / GYSIN — REACT-D, VOROSRT, GLYPH
- PIXEL GENERATOR — 40+ styles, 4 layers + master
- COLOR / TONE / MASK — luma key + tone curves
- AUDIO REACTIVITY — mic FFT, beat detection
- MIDI CONTROL — full CC mapping for VJ rigs
- PROJECTOR MODE — clean fullscreen output
- PRESETS + QUICK-SLOTS — save, recall, hot-swap
Influences
Kim Asendorf's ASDFPixelSort · satyarth/pixelsort · the Gysin / ertdfgcvb ASCII tradition · After Effects Pixel Sorter (Plugin Everything) · classic VGA channel-benders · hg_sdf for the SDF generators · the Akascape pixelsort interval experiments · every modular-synth designer who decided one knob should be the master.
Real frames. Real glitches.
Captured live on Android — no post, no filters, no fake demo reel. Just the studio doing what it does.
Open the studio.
Runs natively on Android. Uses your camera. Exports glitch art you actually own.
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