How does one go about designing something similar? I have been

>>317365
photoshop wind + liquify? clearly some kind of pixel sorting going on

It's pixel sorting
Look up scripts and plugins

very cool

>>317687
>>317365
https://www.behance.net/gallery/51686095/Starman

>>317648
this is the proper way

>>317368
this is the easy work around

>>317648

'scripts and plugins'

lol, good answer

>>317905
not that anon but "Processing scripts" would have been more informative

>>317908

thats still about as informative as asking how picasso painted Les Demoiselles and someone saying "with a paintbrush"

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>>317910
not really, more like
>how do i make text look like picrelated
>get a calligraphic chisel tip sharpie

here at /gd/ we spoonfeed pretty hard
OP asked how to make something like his pic
the full answer is: play for a while with processing, take those experiments to Ps and choose what to show from those and what to show from your original pic
but most of it is about downloading different scripts, trying to make sense out of them and changing values until you get something that looks cool.
you know, experimenting, learning and having fun.
if there's any magic to be had, that's where it happens.

and if you are lazy, this anon suggested a way to cheat it out with a pretty similar result >>317368