Databending thread

Only OC allowed. If you don't know how to do it, I consider this tutorial a good place to get started: http://paulhertz.net/factory/showcase-2/databending/

Felt like making this

>>166 please make a banner out of this.

>>167 I thought of that, it's on /q/ already

neat

This isn't quite the same, but you guys might like it as well. The website will grab a few images related to <Title> and mix them together for you. Made this a while back. http://nag.iap.de/?ac=create&lang=en

>>170 Pretty cool.

>>165 Thanks Lainon. Never thought to play with pictures in Audacity and text editors and the like. Trying to make gifs might be a bit much.

>>172 You can also go the other way around and edit sound samples on image editors. I haven't had much success doing that so far, though. Relevant: http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/?page_id=29

With Audacity.

>>169 Are you the one who glitched it? I would love to know how to get this "drifting" effect on a figure like this

>>178 On that one I just messed around with the bass and treble. The original image was red, trying it on different colors didn't quite have the same result.

the animated ones are cool.

wordpad effect, imported 4 times with different offsets into a gif.

>>170 This is great

It's really fun. I always use the Gimp to polish the "raw" databended images and change saturation, tint, or several other effects.

Or if you're feeling lazy, check this out; snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/ One click glitching and you can adjust settings.

>>166 I could stare at this for hours.

Hey guys, mind if we snatch some of these pics for the Lainzine?

>>186 Go ahead. We shared them here for other Lainons to enjoy any way they want.

Sorry

>>188 nice rare pepe. do you know the current rare pepe exchange rate? last time i heard it was 1 rare pepe to 10 rare spurdo's, but the market has been flooded recently.

>>170 Got some alright ones here.

These are really good, especially: >>166

>>192 Forgot.

>>191 i like those

YEP, I have no idea what I'm doing

>>195 looks pretty cool to me :D

>>195

>>197 this looks good. nice job >>195 >>199 That's amazing. Saving this for sure.

This was fun to do.

>>201 Me again, the image on my phone becomes a glitch in itself

not oc

First attempt

This one went from vidya screenshot, through hexeditor glitching, then into audacious which.. broke the image and all that was left were 120x80px of noise. Which I blurred, colored and upscaled unto this, which, uh, probably wouldn't be recognizable as glitched anymore, although even the header was damaged enough that it couldn't be opened in an imageviewer anymore. Oh well, whatever, have this stupid pointless OC.

Trying out stuff with Audacity.

Blackbird spotted!

My first attempt at glitching. This was a dead hard drive of mine.

kinda spooky

I like how it's not exactly predictable

>>1144 Love this one. Not really sure why. >>1145 The second one is really cool, might use as a background.

With notepad. This is fun

>>1151 Round two

>>170 this can make pretty cool effects sometimes

>>1179 That third one is great

>>1186 Round three

>>229 i liek it

A small experiment with replacing random byte sequences in a JPEG with the word "LaIn", this is pretty fun. Next step is to drive the amount of glitching using an audio file. Then make it realtime Then build an interface around it Then make more filters and ship as a VJing software

>>1210 >Giving the plebeians a medium to flood the glitch art market To the dungeon with this one men! Make him listen to his portraits for the rest of his days!

>>1215 There's a glitch art market?

>>1215 no h8 this time pls i remember a fruitless discussion about what constitutes art with a lainon who was convinced there were some kind of fixed criteria

>>1219 Just joking m8. Everything is art if you're pretentious enough.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s007yiFZ8kRX

>>1248 What am I listening to here?

>>1250 a randomly chopped up slowed down png convwrted to wav with effects thrown over. its a stretch to call it art but i figured it could open up databending with audio in the thread.

Rate my work Lainons, just made these tonight

>>1267 What is the third of?

>>1289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer

>>1267 one with Budd is quite cool

This just happens sometimes. It's not even fubar. It's entirely isolated to the one desktop in i3. I can go to others and they are fine, return and it's still like this. If I just change page or move windows around it'll fix itself. ¯\(°_o)/¯

just made these

>>1365 I forgot, here's the originals

>>1365 >>1366 >The teeth

>>1367 funny thing is, those aren't teeth. that's just the lower bit of her upper lip, creating the idea of teeth because it is paler

Made this after experimenting for a bit. This is actually quite fun.

did my best first

The widest one is legitimate glitch, something went wrong while setting the wallpaper with feh and it displayed crap in uninitialized video memory.

I got some results with hex and Text but when I Export Form audacity i cant reimport in gimp. I sticked to unsigned 8Bit and no header but it still complains about wrong types. I usw the ufraw plugin for gimp to handle raw

>>1488 The ufraw plugin is for handling raw images from digital cameras, it's not raw in the usual sense - it still has a header. For improting headerless images try the one with extension 'data'.

>>1495 Thanks, I didn't knew that. It worked but sometimes gimp shows a preview but no image in the canvas after setting the size. Well I have to Experiment some more. Copying some sections with vom and then Papst Them again is a noce effect btw

Just copy and pasted "Are you enjoying the Time of Eve" twice in random points. My first time. Really something cool

okular and vim was pretty neat for just text editing, cause okular auto reloads the image. I'll figure out the hex and audio editing stuff later.

Strategic cut and paste with nano.

this is fun

What I find interesting is that Databending results somewhat depend on the encoding format. Glitch art in the purest form is art produced unexpectedly, like the eponymous MISSINGNO was. When developing programs (esp. graphical programs) one will often be surprised by glitch art. The first pic is caused by a glitch in my malloc() function for skullcode. The 2nd was caused by cache invalidation failure, so old data was used with new code. The third pic is a glitch caused by enabling the scan line mode of skullcode without double buffering enabled. Another form of glitch art that I rarely see in the glitch scene, which is familiar to developers and some gamers is the interactive glitch. This can happen when a glitch surprisingly appears and some form of the viewer's input can affect the glitch to varying degrees. I should start recording some of those when they happen, they can range from pretty, to funny, to disturbing. There's a "Beautiful Fails" thread on Tig Source that's worth checking out if you like this sort of thing: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=26727.0

>>1575 I'm sure most of you are aware of this. but if you get heavily into some of the exploits and glitches in first gen pokemon games, there's a lot of interesting code and interpretations of input to be found. Particularly with the pokedex. Here's an excerpt from a site dedicated to the topic >In Generation I and II games, the variables used to refer to a specific Pokémon are large enough to hold 256 possible values (including 0); this is because variable sizes must be powers of two, and the next smallest size is 128 values, which would not have been sufficient. A similar situation exists in Generation III and IV games, with the variables each being able to hold 512 values (again, including 0). Here's the site it was pulled from http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Glitch_Pok%C3%A9mon

>>1589

>>1590

This is from a program that uses a genetic algorithm to munge code in an image encoding library. Each frame represents a different variant of the encoder. The downside is that this produces HUGE gifs, and sometimes hits edge cases in PNG that make the result decoder-dependent. If people like this technique I can do runs on arbitrary images, just post pngs.

>>1594 Another example

hex edited .png screencapture since every time I glitch a png I corrupt it totally, but feh can still open it for some reason. Also having trouble with the audacity method, but I'm sure I'll get it. Also, a glitched gif from hex editing every frame and putting it back together.

I've written a little program to apply sequences of per-pixel transformations to an image, specifying how to combine the results. Attached are some examples. It's rather limited at the moment, as it can only do per-pixel transformations, rather than whole-image transformations. Transformations are also deterministic. So no random glitching possible yet.

>>1616 Note: the program itself doesn't generate the animations. Rather, each frame is a distinct set of parameters, which were combined together into three gifs.

>>1616 I really like this. It should be pretty easy to do a game of life dealio to get some effect in the contours as well as the color. How do you define the parameter space for a whole gif?

>>1619 The way it basically works is this: for pixel in image: let (r', g', b') = f (pixel.r, pixel.g, pixel.b) pixel.r = combine(pixel.r, r') pixel.g = combine(pixel.g, g') pixel.b = combine(pixel.b, b') Then with different choices for `f` and `combine` you can get different results. The whole process can be iterated with multiple parameter choices to get more interesting effects. The currently available transformation functions are: - lightness: (r, g, b) -> (maximum (r, g, b) + minimum (r, g, b)) / 2 - average: (r, g, b) -> (r + g + b) / 3 - luminosity: (r, g, b) -> ceil (0.21 * r + 0.72 * g + 0.07 * b) - red: (r, g, b) -> r - green: (r, g, b) -> g - blue: (r, g, b) -> b And the combining functions are addition, subtraction, and replacement. Note that the transformation function only gets told the RGB value of the pixel, nothing more. I need to pass in the entire image and the coordinates or something to do more interesting transformations. The gifs are pretty simple. Firstly I made all the frames by taking all combinations of two transformations and two combinations: #!/bin/bash combines="replace add sub" transforms="lightness average luminosity red green blue" for c1 in $combines; do for t1 in $transforms; do for c2 in $combines; do for t2 in $transforms; do echo $c1 $t1 $c2 $t2 img $c1 $t1 $c2 $t2 lain.jpg lain-$c1-$t1-$c2-$t2.jpg done done done done Then lain1.gif is lain.jpg + lain-add*.jpg, lain2.gif is lain.jpg + lain-sub*.jpg, and lain3.gif is lain.jpg + lain-replace*.jpg

>>1616 You should write up how you made the program and how to use it along with the code and submit it to the new lainzine! >>>/lit/2040

>>1616 I made a banner inspired by the one on the homepage. This does have a bit of post-processing in GIMP, as there's no way to add the green overlay currently. But I've figured out how to nicely express more complex transformations like that to the program, so I'll be adding it.

>>1366

>>1625 nice

My this is fun! My first one, made in ed and Blender. A view of Timisoara.

>>1218 >>1219 Don't give this guy too much soykaf. Just look at dubstep, it used to be good, back before normies happened to it. >gets super popular for a few months >defiled by mainstream "artists" >then thrown away as the fad faded.

A nice thing with this kind of art is that you can save a "hidden message" in your file, which other people can read. It's a kind of a fun way to think about how certain sentences can change the actual image.

>>1705

fauxx style backdrop i made a while back; tried some skewing

spent about 2 hours making this. enjoy!

ship's kind of big

Decided to play with album covers in audacity today

>>1748

Here are some I just made.

>>1753 Okay, here is a good one.

>>1746 Ok, this is nice.

>>1594 >>1595 can you write out how to make these? This would be very useful. And we could have it on the lainzine

I've watched this series of video about JPEG by computerphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uNPbdenRs And now I actually understand what I'm doing. Would recommend. Here's three images, In the first one I altered the luma Quantization Table, in the second I altered the chroma one and in the third I altered both.

>>1817 you can use djpeg (a utility from the libjpeg package) to see what quantisation tables an image uses with something like djpeg -verbose -verbose <image> > /dev/null this will display as a matrix which, in the file itself, is stored linearly and populates the array in a zig-zag pattern, so something like 01 01 02 01 01 03 02 03 05 would be stored 01 01 01 02 01 02 03 03 05 so search for it interpreted that way in your hex editor or whatever

another!

>>1839

>>1839 Very Nice. This is my first attempt.

>>1845 Oh man, I am loving this. It's like I have actual skill!

>>1847 Glitchart is badass af

Schway or soykaf? I'll do more if lain likes it

>>1855 i really like them

>>1855 Silver Falls, OR on the second?

>>1788 It relies on a research program that's difficult to set up, one day I'll make a webservice for it but in the meantime I don't think it's good enough to share

>>1856 I love you too >>1858 Nah. Nooksack Falls, WA. Silver Falls is on my list of places to shoot though. Here's a couple more.

>>1842 these are just too much fun

>>1864 those too something to consider, thought, is that the waterfall is much less abstract than the others. i like both kinds. nice colors.

kinda new into this....

>>1864 Is the image from the left also an album cover ?

>>1873 Thanks. I think it's a little too easy to go abstract with glitch sometimes. Still training my artistic muscles as it were. >>1877 Yes. I did a quick google search for random covers so I don't know the band or album. I'm a photographer so I kinda want to stay away from my own images for the most part. These two are from my initial test run to see what kinds of things I can do. The finger was done through Audacity and the other was PixelDrifter.

>>1878 >>1864 >>1855 Witness the power of this fully operational glitch station.

>>1886 Wow, that second one with the eye is sweet. how did you make that?

>>1887 Loads of editing in the GIMP. Layer masking is like magic. There's two main images that I glitched and stacked them. The area around the eye is the background rotated 180 degrees using an egg shape to mask out what I want to show. The streaks are just adding and taking away from that mask. Then a pentagram set to grain merge between that egg mask and the base layer. The eye is just copied and pasted a bunch and the rest are just random brushes I use. If you can learn how to use layers and masking you can do pretty much everything you want. The rest is practice. I have a ton more images in this style but they aren't glitch.

>>1892 Was making dank OC part of your plan?

>>1888 I'm of the opinion that this is not really glitch; if you control how the output looks, it's not glitch, but glitch style digital painting.

>>1916 A valid point.

Done these yesterday night, testing how to hex edit a JPG header without breaking the image. Last one is the original.

>>1927 nice effect!

>>1917 Not that it doesn't look cool, but I like my glitches to have randomness in them. Of course, they look less cool.

added a bit of stuff with gimp as well here

>>1932 How about cats?

another giant image, sorry

>>1938 more interesting, probably

>>1939 something different

>>1938 Unnnnnnf worth the wait by far

original image, audacity edit and some extra photoshop fun

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the great glitch river!

>>165 old stuff inbound

>>1819 Thanks, I didn't know djpeg existed. My VJing "program" is coming along nicely (>>1210 ) Does anyone know if a linux program exists to visually represent programs and pipes graphically like a node system? This would come in handy.

Some astronauts and a sun rise

>>1967 Those are fuarrrking incredible

anyone have any terminal based glitch-art?

>>1993 did you make this?

>>1994 Yes, although the original art isn't by me. (open it in a hex editor and search for the string "lain" or 6C 61 69 6E in hex)

This is fun.

dumb soykaf made for a thing I never did

shroomi shrooms. trigger warning; huge file size.

>>2123 seems like 100mb+ is to much. lets try a smaller version

>>2124 bonus shrooms

>>1705

>>1875 I did the same one

>>2371

Distorted and original, which is also OC, in wallpaper size

Noob here, I have a question. After I export an image file into a raw ".data" file, how can I return it back into a useful image?

>>2379 I stole your pic so it only looks like this in photo viewer if I open it in gimp it's just black so I had to take a screen shot of it in full screen to get it into a postable form

First attempt. It's deep and meaningful.

>>1956 got some printed for an exhibition next week :3

>>2451 that first one is really sweet! Nice job lainon

>>2429 holy hotness i like your glitched version but sauce pls

>>2429 looks like you used wordpad and audacity w/ compressor and phaser audio effects amirite

>>2459 pic >>2462 I used Gimp + Audacity. I'm not sure about the compressor and phaser.

Hey, this is pretty cool. Thanks for giving the audacity program on my computer a new purpose.

>>2455 thanks; the gallery I submitted them to had second thoughts the last one tho.

>>2496 Wow, you can actually get galleries to take this? Have you made any money off of it?

There surely has to be easier way to do this with gifs and webms?

>>2502 >Wow, you can actually get galleries to take this? Surprisingly yes; it was a student gallery and the coordinator seemed overly enthusiastic to showcase my work. >Have you made any money off of it? Nope; this was my first try tho. Everybody was quick to say how much they liked it but never put their money where their mouth was. :<, today was the last day. Then again I wasn't expecting much since they rejected "7/11 Was A Part-Time Job".

Audacity's echo and reverb create these neat oversaturated prismatic things. >>2581 Radical. How do you do this horizontal streaking effect?

>>2581 that’s awesome - looks well cool

>>2596 >Audacity's echo and reverb create these neat oversaturated prismatic things. Yeah, and Change Pitch/Speed yields this effect. >How do you do this horizontal streaking effect? It just looks like a simple pixelsort; use processing.

>>2596 The other poster is right, it's pixelsorting. I used asdfpixelsort. Results can be pretty hit or miss, but it's fun for a while.

>>2599 >>2601 Thanks, never heard of pixelsort. Cool stuff.

>>2602 No problem! Here's what happens when you mix the two.

>>2601 The Bacon painting is exactly what I want to achieve with a picture of myself. Thanks for the tip. Otherwise, what should I know about image processing for doing databending using Python?

made some more things

>>2628 oh, and updated >>1839 >>2603 that's beautiful =D