Creating wild new colours
A cobbled street in Cadiz
2. Same image after pixelating
3. The two images combined, using Bitwise XOR
This was the first and most exciting discovery. You can combine pixels using simple mathematical formulae and come up with wild and beautiful new colours. Bitwise operations, notably XOR, are usually the most dramatic. Paradoxically, dull images with little original colour seem to produce the most dramatic results.
