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Ask HN: Datamoshing?

• rgbrgb 15y ago
  Clickable -- http://vimeo.com/3139412 http://vimeo.com/3139412
• kennywinker 15y ago
  It's compression artifacts. I imagine it can be created by toying with video compression tools like ffmpeg. Here is some discussion of that, to start you off. http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=90329 http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=90329 See also http://vimeo.com/17845583 http://vimeo.com/17845583 (Kanye West's Welcome to Heartbreak). There are a couple of other fairly mainstream videos that have used this as well, as far back as 2006 I think (remember seeing it, can't remember the name of the video).
  • kennywinker 15y ago
    You got me interested, so I kept digging. I found this (http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-compression-artifact-to-filter.html http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-compression-ar...) article about an artist name Sven Konig who has done a project using this effect. He has a python script on his website that does this glitching effect on demand. http://www.popmodernism.org/appropirate/ http://www.popmodernism.org/appropirate/
    • kennywinker 15y ago
      btw, I get malware warnings when I go to anything at popmodernism.org. Nothing bad happened when I bypassed them (mac/safari 5.0.5). Anyway, here is the python source, if you're scared off by the malware warnings... or maybe it's just me getting them? https://gist.github.com/976016 https://gist.github.com/976016
      • rgbrgb 15y ago
        Thanks a lot!!