I’ve got MSc from Computer Science a way back, but I haven’t really programmed over the last ten years. Later I got a degree in photography and got into arts. To refresh my computing skill I picked up NetLogo and made some agent and cellular Automata based images. I wanted to integrate my photos to that stuff, but NetLogo has a huge memory footprint and doesn’t handle pixels or RGB that well. So I needed a new tool and found processing.
From the start with Processing I’ve glitched my photos. Not just pixel sorting, but any possible way I could device to break a photograph on pixel level.
A month a go I realized there are datastructures in Processing and Java that make it easy to implement some agent features similar to NetLogo. So I have implemented cellular Automata framework to manipulate photos. It involved a lot of tweaking and testing to get emergence on top of a photo, but I got there.

You can find my processing and photo based glitch art at my Twitter account https://twitter.com/Harri_JK

Thanks for a great tool. I hope I can give something back to processing.