Some kind of glitch
I love graphical glitch. When the machine, usually video compressor, makes a mistake, but doesn’t crash. You end up with amazing effects sometimes, like this one:
This image is a screen shot, untouched. (from my personal glitch collection)
With Glitcher, I try to render the same kind of bugs, but on still images. The animation is the glitching process itself. My first experimentations were on images, like those:
I wasn’t very satisfied with these: too simple algorithm, no movement. I also discovered that simpler imagery, even very abstract gives the best result. So I worked it again, and here is the V2:
The circular effect on the last 2 has been created for the use of “Glitcher” live, while rehearsing for an upcoming project “TO”. More on this later…
hey, what did you use to do this. is this a software or are you using textedit? …basically i want to play with this to
textedit ?? how could textedit do that ? i’m curious!
this is processing.
in a basic sense you can import things to text edit and change the code to have 2D visual glitches, what are you using to process this? do you have any coding i can look at?
I see what you mean now.
Well basically it’s fake glitch I would say.
There is no real troublemaking in files data or rendering, this program will take one picture and then cut parts of it, make some random “collage” and paste these pieces back to the picture. then the process continues on this modified version and so on.
I made it using the Processing language, very easy to learn (processing.org). I can’t show any code as it is unreadable as hell! but you get the idea.