: Specific name of "line in taxicab geometry" art style wanted I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in

@Eichhorn212

I'm not sure if this "style" has any specific name — it's really just a simple Photoshop / GIMP / etc. effect. Here, let me recreate the image in the GIMP for you:


I'll start with the Newgrounds logo, scaled to 640 pixels wide to match your example image (click to enlarge):


Next, I add some multiplicative noise by creating a new layer, filling it with grayscale noise and setting its blending mode to "multiply":


The I merge the layers and pixelize the result. I used 4 × 4 pixels here, whereas your image probably had 3 × 3 pixels, but it doesn't make much difference:


Then, I applied an edge-detection filter (Filters → Edge-Detect → Edge..., "Gradient" algorithm, amount 1.0):


Finally, I inverted the colors (Colors → Hue-Saturation..., adjust master hue by 180) to match your image:

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@Angela777

For me it is variation of pixel art combined with vectorizing which is possible on modern machines.

Someone called this style as "pixel-meets-vector", however I am not sure that this type of art has individual name. You can see that the pictures are made of small squares and this is the permanent feature of pixel art. Again, probably it is original pixel art development.

As we can clearly see, the smallest picture element is a small square cell which has no fill, but just outline. Second, we clearly see, that this square outline is the ONLY graphic element used to create the whole artwork: there are no triangle, uneven rectangles or circles. There are square cells only with varying color overlays.

As stated, we have clearly see that the picture is built by small square cells - picture cells, which is exact meaning of the word pixel (PICture CELL).

Thus, we can state that this picture is highly suggestive to be part of Pixel Art variety.

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