Lo-Fi Pixel Art Processor: Demoscene Aesthetics for Video

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A Node.js processor for creating lo-fi pixel art from video. Built with Sharp and FFmpeg, inspired by demoscene size constraints and permacomputing principles.

Effects

  • sparse - Gapped colored pixels with edge preservation

  • dither - Ordered Bayer dithering

  • halftone - Circular dots by luminance

  • crt - RGB subpixels with scanline gaps

  • crosshatch - Diagonal line hatching

  • scanline - Horizontal run-length blocks

  • edge - Edge detection only

  • sparse-dither - Combined dither + sparse

Download

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Extract and run: npm install && node process.mjs input.mp4 output.gif -e sparse