December 30, 2012

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Processing + JPGs

Cycling through values of bytes 0x37, 0x7E and 0x011D using sinusoidal functions.

9:01am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwaXNhaS
(Notes: 73)
  
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December 29, 2012
364 of 366 Processing + JPGs Randomly varying byte 0x37 and byte 0xCD.  Animating the usable frames.

364 of 366

Processing + JPGs

Randomly varying byte 0x37 and byte 0xCD.  Animating the usable frames.

9:01am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwaS4c7A
(Notes: 121)
  
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December 28, 2012

363 of 366

Processing + JPGs

Combining manipulations on bytes 0x37 and 0x011D

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwaMrQPp
(Notes: 29)
  
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December 27, 2012
362 of 366 Processing + JPGs Cycling through values of byte 0xC7 gave the frames of the animation above, as well as loads of files that Processing refused to load.

362 of 366

Processing + JPGs

Cycling through values of byte 0xC7 gave the frames of the animation above, as well as loads of files that Processing refused to load.

9:01am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwaHXkIQ
(Notes: 204)
  
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December 26, 2012
361 of 366 Processing + JPGs Byte number 55 or 0x37 of a 640x480 JPG encoded at the highest quality using GIMP was sequentially stepped through all possible values.  This is a snip of 25 of those values. Thanks to Ted Davis for insight into the technique of tinkering with JPG Huffman encoding tables.  This manipulation is performed on the first byte in the luminance tables.

361 of 366

Processing + JPGs

Byte number 55 or 0x37 of a 640x480 JPG encoded at the highest quality using GIMP was sequentially stepped through all possible values.  This is a snip of 25 of those values.

Thanks to Ted Davis for insight into the technique of tinkering with JPG Huffman encoding tables.  This manipulation is performed on the first byte in the luminance tables.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwaCbvKa
(Notes: 389)
  
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December 25, 2012
360 of 366 Processing + JPGs After meeting Ted Davis (FFD8) and attending his panel with Paul Hertz at Gli.tc/h in Chicago earlier this month, I decided that I should get over my personal aversion to programming. Using Processing, I’ve written a primitive (and probably poorly structured) program that will enable me to go through a file byte by byte and sequentially change the value of a particular byte. The GIF above started as a JPG. By stepping byte number 0xC4 (or the 196th byte in the file) through values 128 through 220, the alignment of the image raster was thrown askew. Writing a program to proceduralize the restructuring of data doesn’t seem antithetical to the glitch ethos. Though, somehow there’s a line that is crossed once that code becomes packaged and sold, used only for a particular effect, rather than extended further. At that point, the process seems little different from the ritualized produce/consume (prosume) paradigm established by large “productivity” software firms. For me, anyways, glitch has been about skirting the usual channels of productivity. Creating your own tools is part of that. Processing code

360 of 366

Processing + JPGs

After meeting Ted Davis (FFD8) and attending his panel with Paul Hertz at Gli.tc/h in Chicago earlier this month, I decided that I should get over my personal aversion to programming.

Using Processing, I’ve written a primitive (and probably poorly structured) program that will enable me to go through a file byte by byte and sequentially change the value of a particular byte.

The GIF above started as a JPG. By stepping byte number 0xC4 (or the 196th byte in the file) through values 128 through 220, the alignment of the image raster was thrown askew.

Writing a program to proceduralize the restructuring of data doesn’t seem antithetical to the glitch ethos. Though, somehow there’s a line that is crossed once that code becomes packaged and sold, used only for a particular effect, rather than extended further. At that point, the process seems little different from the ritualized produce/consume (prosume) paradigm established by large “productivity” software firms. For me, anyways, glitch has been about skirting the usual channels of productivity. Creating your own tools is part of that.

Processing code

2:58pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwa83d7U
(Notes: 76)
  
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April 5, 2012

096 of 366

One Character Databend Studies

256x256 pixel cropped images produced by changing only one hex character in a white JPG file.  Oftentimes the change amounts to the flipping of a single bit, as in 00 to 01.

8:43am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwJ7KHxH
(Notes: 23)
  
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April 2, 2012

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File Format Studies (JPG - word replacement)

Whole blocks of 4 8bit words were replaced throughout a 4000x3000px white JPG.  For example, replace all A0 02 8A 28 with FA DE DE AD.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIymptA
(Notes: 33)
  
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March 28, 2012

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Macroblock Study 6

Color study using 8x8 macroblock artifacts induced after databending Post number 38 by replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIhinKw
(Notes: 34)
  
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March 27, 2012

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Macroblock Study 6

Color and pattern study using 8x8 macroblock artifacts induced after databending Post number 38 by replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIeVRPY
(Notes: 10)
  
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March 26, 2012

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Macroblock Study 6

Interesting things (is that a TIE fighter?) found after databending Post number 38, replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIbD6jr
(Notes: 7)
  
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March 25, 2012

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Macroblock Study 6

Interesting things (faces?) found after databending Post number 38, replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

What would be great is to find the code/equations used to represent these in the JPEG format.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIXXzrw
(Notes: 17)
  
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March 24, 2012

084 of 366

Macroblock Study 6

Interesting things found after databending Post number 38, replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIU1mZi
(Notes: 26)
  
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March 23, 2012

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Macroblock Study 6

Interesting things found after databending Post number 38, replacing all “a” characters with “>” and then opening it in GIMP.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIR1BLr
(Notes: 19)
  
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March 21, 2012

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Macroblock Study 2 (8x8 pixel selections) 

A study of macroblock artifacts induced by selectively replacing characters in JPEG files.

The source image for these artifacts started as a 1200x1200px white JPG.  After 10 steps of replacing characters, various micro compositions are selected, highlighting macroblock artifacts.

9:00am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZX7FGwIKufZz
(Notes: 26)
  
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