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Block Silhouette

Turns the picture into a flat two-colour silhouette on a block grid, like a neon poster: blocks darker than Threshold take Ink, the rest Paper (Invert swaps them); Marks adds dots or crosses on their own grid in the opposite colour.

Group: Analog & Glitch · How to add an effect

Block Silhouette on the night street with neon signs: the original on the left, Block Silhouette at its default settings on the right
Left: the original. Right: Block Silhouette at its default settings.

A short page made from the editor’s effect catalog: what the effect does and its controls. Tips and its node setup will follow.

Presets: Neon Yellow · White on Black · Big Pixels · Blueprint. Pick one in the Preset row of the effect card.

Control Range Default
Silhouette
Block Size 4 to 120 px 26 px
Measure Brightness, Differs from edge Brightness
Threshold 0 to 1 0.2
Invert 0 to 1 0
Marks
Marks None, Dots, Crosses Dots
Grid Size 4 to 200 px 36 px
Mark Size 1 to 24 px 4 px
Mark Area Edges, Ink, Paper, Everywhere Edges
Mark Amount 0 to 1 0.5
Mark Opacity 0 to 1 1
Color
Ink a colour #000000
Paper a colour #eeff0d
Mix
Seed 0 to 9999 0
Amount 0 to 1 1

How effects are stored, rendered and exported: Effect system. Its building blocks: Node Catalog.