Glyph

image → visual code

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local rendering engine · no upload

Turn any image into
visual code.

Drop a photograph and it is rebuilt instantly out of characters, dither, tiles, dots, bricks or glyphs — then hit randomize and it becomes something else. Every style is a different rendering algorithm running on your own machine.

Everything runs locally in your browser.
Characters · cyan · bloomseed 482913
live renderer output340 × 208

Instant

Renders on your device — no queue, no upload.

12 styles

Characters, dither, mosaic, LEGO, halftone, matrix.

Live controls

Every slider redraws the artwork as you drag it.

Stackable effects

Bloom, CRT, scanlines, grain, RGB split, glitch.

Real export

PNG, JPG or WEBP up to 4× — plus WEBM for motion.

Workflow

Image in. Visual code out.

Four steps, none of them a waiting screen.

01

Drop an image

Any JPG, PNG, WEBP or GIF. It never leaves the browser.

02

It transforms itself

A style is picked at random and rendered the moment it lands.

03

Randomize

New renderer, new palette, new effect stack — one click, same photo.

04

Export

Save the artwork at 1×, 2× or 4×. The interface is never in the file.

What it renders

One image, twelve languages

Each style is a different algorithm reading the same pixels.

Characters

Brightness becomes a glyph from the ramp; colour comes from the source.

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Dither

Real error diffusion — Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson, Sierra, Stucki, Burkes and Bayer.

floyd · bayer8

Mosaic

Sampled tiles with gap, angle and a highlight per tile.

tile 18px · 4°

Halftone

Print-style dots, mono or RGB, at any screen angle.

45° · rgb

Matrix

Columns of falling glyphs whose density is the photograph.

01アイウエオ

Mixed

Two or three renderers stacked in bands across one image.

characters + dots + pixel

Randomize

The same photo,
endlessly re-seen.

Keep pressing randomize — each result is a new interpretation of your image.

Glyph

Drop an image. See what it becomes.

Free to use, and the image never leaves your device.

Glyph

Built for designers, motion artists and developers.

Rendering, grading and effects all run in your browser. Your images are never uploaded to a server.