Scanlines: a picture in bent lines

Scanlines redraws a layer as rows of lines or dots, bent by its brightness.

Try this

  1. Compare Demo 1, the plain shape, with Demo 2, the same shape with Scanlines.
  2. Click the shape in Demo 2, open Effects and click Scanlines. Drag Displace to bend the lines.
  3. Change Pattern to Dots, or Direction to Vertical.
  4. Tick Keep inside the layer's own shape to draw lines only on the shape, as in Demo 3.