The QGIS Shredder Plugin Inspired by Banksy’s Shredder: Sustainable shredder with no waste
In October 2018, the art world witnessed an unprecedented event when Banksy’s “Girl with Balloon” partially shredded itself immediately after being auctioned at Sotheby’s. This bold act challenged traditional perceptions of art, value, and the role of the artist. Drawing inspiration from this event, I developed a unique QGIS plugin that shreds layers.
This plugin shreds the input data into shredded pieces and is implemented with a simple pyQGIS API.
It can be shedded with either vector or raster layers, and the fineness of the shredding can be set.
This plugin may seem useless at first glance, but it can be used when you want to mess up your data, when you have created data that you cannot show to others, when you just want to relieve stress, or when you want to feel like Banksy.
Most importantly, while shredding physical documents produces waste, shredding data creates no physical waste, making it a truly sustainable practice.