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ITT: We fuck up files in cool ways so they look schway as fuck
What I did:
>convert the image to .tiff or .tif format in GIMP
>open it up in audacity by starting a new project and importing it as raw data (you HAVE to pick A-law as an option when importing)
>play the track
>cool crackly noises
Now let's fuck this bitch up
>avoid modifying the beginning of the track, that's where the guttywats of the image are, and it wouldn't work without it being intact
>apply echo, reverb, wahwah, phaser, normalization, noise reduction, anything you fucking want
>export as headerless raw data (you have to pick A-Law again when exporting)
>erase .raw extension and replace it with .tif again
>open up the image
try it, anons
▶ No.34140
>>34138 (OP)
I'm glad there is interest in this here! I have been doing this for a little while and really enjoy it. My problem with it is that I want a steady effect across the whole image similar to the OP pic but I usually get choppy effects from bending strips like in your second post. When I apply one steady effect to the image it usually breaks it so I have to glitch it softly leading to these images.
▶ No.34170>>34176
just did this, i like it.
▶ No.34174>>34176
convert this back to .tif using GIMP
open with audacity like you would to databend
skip to 45 second mark and play.
▶ No.34176>>34244
>>34170
How did you make this? usually my distortions happen horizontally.
Also, I like the satanistic imagery.
>>34174
Got something recognizable, but it was really fuzzy and started around 1:30. Should I import as U-Law, no endianess, and Mono or what? Also, I had considered placing messages into files with hex editors, but had not considered audio clips in photos. Cool idea.
▶ No.34181
Why TIFF? TIFF has the option of compression (which has to be none for this to work), but other formats like BMP are, I suppose, more straightforward.
BMP's super straightforward, simple header and raw data.
▶ No.34184
Yeah, BMP works.
It's a terrible format for storing images, but for databending it seems better than TIFF to me. TIFF can even hold metadata on it!
▶ No.34188>>34204
Noise reduction is interesting.
▶ No.34192>>34196
What's really weird is that if you convert these to bmp, you get a transparent layer where the colored background is in the jpg. The background is also transparent as a png, and only shows up as a jpg.
▶ No.34193>>34194
>>34189
Here's a "chart" off what all of the default equalizer ones do. The one titled "custom" is my own blend used to make this >>34189 and I can upload it somewhere if anyone wants.
polite sage for kind of spamming thread
▶ No.34196
>>34192
I think I know how the image has a funky transparent / not transparent background. The original anon must have taken a screenshot from the show, popped that into GIMP, and cut out Lain so that he could have a Lain with transparency. Then, when he was exporting it as a .png (because jpgs don't support transparency) he forgot to untick the "save background color" button, leading the background to still be encoded, just not displayed. I wonder if this could be effective for hidden messages in images. Hiding right in plain sight.
▶ No.34204>>34209
>>34188
beautiful…
>>34197
Schway!!!
>>34198
Did you make this yourself? This is awesome. Also, are you using bmp or raw? I hear raw is easiest to edit as it has no header so you can glitch an image in its entirety.
▶ No.34209
>>34204
I made them a while ago yes; for this https://8archive.moe/b/thread/2845159/ thread actually. I use bmp it's quick enough.
▶ No.34231>>34236
spent about 2 hours working on this.
▶ No.34236>>34242 >>34243
>>34231
How did you get it to only effect the sticker? How did you make it so subtle to make it look stylized instead of heavily distorted?
▶ No.34242>>34246
>>34236
like i said i spent 2 hours on this, aka i spent about 1:40 cleaning the background
▶ No.34243>>34246
>>34236
also i used gnu image and i just cleaned the edges.
if you open it up and look at the edge you can see spots where i missed.
▶ No.34244
>>34176
i rotated the image before hand
▶ No.34246>>34281
>>34242
>>34243
I was under the impression that you did it using only Audacity, and thought that you might have made a really cool equalizer pattern. If you were using GIMP, there was probably a much simpler way to do it. For example, assuming that you have the original image and the databended image:
>open each copy as a layer so that the un-bent image is on the top layer and the bent image is on the bottom layer
>select the laughing man, but not his background, on the top layer. For an graphic this simple, the "Select By Color Tool" (shift+o) should do fine
>delete your selection
>right click on the layer in the layers toolbox and select (Alpha to selection)
>grab your paintbucket and make sure that it's set to "Fill whole section" instead of the default "Fill similar colors"
>Fill up your current selection
Pic related, took me about 5 minutes.
▶ No.34281
>>34246
anything but this would be silly
▶ No.34283
Some test pieces I did earlier.
▶ No.34294>>37793
>>34197
We should do this with all the banners and replace them.
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▶ No.34382>>34407
>>34138 (OP)
Very interesting. Kinda adds a bit of eroticism to the image for me. Acts like a censor.
▶ No.34388
If you use TIFF with RRGGBB instead of interleaved channels you'll get more colorful images and can affect the channels seperately, also you can use sth like a phaser effect in audacity and make multiple images with different phase angles - > schway animated gif
▶ No.34399>>34999
I love how this turned out. This was on the first try.
▶ No.34407>>34842
>>34382
>cybercuteboys exist
>tfw you will never have your agents hack into a cyborg boy's systems, rendering him helpless while you play with him to your heart's content
▶ No.34410
lost all my shit, everything i have right now
▶ No.34585
Dear diary,
Today OP was a pretty cool guy.
▶ No.34586>>34587 >>34588 >>34594 >>34721
Just posting two schway pics I bent. Both from my beloved São Paulo.
▶ No.34588
>>34587
>>34586
Good job, I love it.
▶ No.34594
>>34586
that's shway as fuck
▶ No.34648
Played around a bit in audacity and this happened.
▶ No.34659
>guttywats
Mah droogie, but it's "Guttiwuts".
▶ No.34665
>>34141
I like the butt one anon, kinda neat.
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▶ No.34834
>>34138 (OP)
This is pretty neat, thanks for introducing this to me chummer.
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▶ No.35495>>35507 >>35540
I converted the image I want to mess with into a .tiff and successfully opened it with audacity but when I try to open the finished .tiff in gimp to see what I made it doesn't recognize it. I exported it as headerless raw data and selected A-Law again but gimp doesn't recognize it. Is there something stupid I could be doing wrong?
▶ No.35507>>35565
>>35495
What may have happened is that you may have corrupted the file. Try not to do anything to the very start or very end of the fil in audacity. The very front is the header of the image file. It's what tells the image viewer, "hey, I'm ima tiff with this sort of compression or lack thereof!" So if you muck it up the imatiage viewer won't know what it's seeing. Report back with the anymore questions, if if can answer them I will.
▶ No.35526
>>34999 (Fantabulous Digits Detected)
▶ No.35540
>>35495
In case you would like a more visual example pic is a completely transparent 2048^2px image (the section highlighted is a portion of the full file, most of it was deleted so the relevant information could fit into the image).
I think changing the length of the audio will technically change the footer (idk if that's what it's actually called in this case) and corrupt the file, so try avoiding effects like tempo/speed changing.
▶ No.35552
>>35551
Accidentally it to .png. Attachment is actual .png.
▶ No.35558>>35559
PiP.
Apparently I can't post 2 at the same time ;_;
▶ No.35565>>35566
>>35507
It turned out I was editing the very end of the image.
Thanks for your help chummer, this art this is pretty radical
▶ No.35566
>>35565
*art thing
also this is what I started with
▶ No.35910>>36012
Used >>34998 as a backdrop.
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▶ No.36449
>>34142
That notorious big picture is chill as hell.
▶ No.36522>>36886
Isn't there an online programe that does this, I saw it posted on old /x/ a long time ago.
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▶ No.36984
shit I cant post my oc because I corrupted the huffman code when making the shit
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▶ No.37047>>37091
Can we apply gimp filters to audio files?
▶ No.37091
>>37047
>screencap audio waves
>apply gimp filter
>import screencap as raw
:^)
▶ No.37098
Or you could just use "getmosh(dot)io". I use it a lot. Made these.
▶ No.37165
>>37015
Thanks chummer
>>37104
That first pic looks dank when you scroll up and down on it
▶ No.37186>>37187 >>37188
just █ color ascii… origional on deviantart some where…
GO FIND IT U BUGGERS!
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▶ No.37188>>37815
>>37186
would be nice if someone could glitch it out
▶ No.37793
>>34294
this would be cool
▶ No.37815
>>37188
Done. I'm quite proud of this tbh. Hosting this as a banner for my site.
▶ No.40327
http://nag.iap.de/?lang=en
whenever it gets back in operation,it'll do the business for you
▶ No.40345
Here's a site that makes your images look like a Commodore 64.
http://c64.superdefault.com/
▶ No.42454
>>42443
album cover material
▶ No.42701>>42703
Can you do this to video using the same principle? Has anyone tried it?
I'll be experimenting with the idea later on either way.
▶ No.42703
>>42701
1. slice video into separate frames
2. apply degradation to images
3. compile frames back into video
Use ffmpeg for 1 and 3, use whatever for 2.
Kinda hard to do manually, but you can write a shell script and automate the whole thing.
▶ No.42730>>42786
How about some corrupted text terminals?
I'm not sure what caused it.
▶ No.42733
you copied word for word the section on imagine corrupting in Lainchan Lainzine 3
▶ No.42786
>>42730
cat /dev/urandom does the trick
▶ No.42792
Oh hey, I used to do this!
Not a regular /cyber/ user, I just drop in once in a blue moon to derp for a bit and then fuck off, forgetting that this place exists, only to return for maybe 2 posts like a year later.
I'mma share my fun with databending from ages ago
So, these where made incrementally,
When OP said that you HAVE to pick A-Law, he's 100% wrong. you have to pick A-Law if you want to be able to open them normally without correcting it.
I also use Irfanview which lets you correct errored to fuck jpgs, BUT it only works when the resolution is in specific sizes (Pixels width and height seem to both need to end on specific numbers arbitrarily, I was aiming for divisible by 5, but i think it's actually divisible by 4 or 8 because of how jpg actually is split into square sectors) or else you get weird angular looping and overlapping
AND you usually have to write down the original resolution and color size.
thanks to irfanview however you CAN totally fuck up the header it seems, which means that it seems you can screw up the ENTIRE FILE, as long as you have something like irfanview or a hex editor to re-add a header. I personally like EQ and Distortion which over-saturates specific colors while washing out others.
and I did say that correctly. I've been databending with .jpg, and .bmp. I have not been able to get .png to work.
▶ No.42793
the image in this titled "glitch" is because I saved the audio as a .wav, imported it in a DAW, loaded the VST effect "Dblue Glitch" left everything random, recorded that and saved it as a wav, loaded it in audacity, and exported THAT as raw data and re-converted the image.
the effect of "holy crap" is one of the failures of irfanview to correct properly,
Max filesize is 8mb and my best .gif is 8.17mb so I uploaded it with puush, but this link will expire in, I dunno, a month or two?
http://puu.sh/qhyaN/339bb6feff.gif
I made it out of a single image I found on /x/ several years ago before I knew about 8ch.
▶ No.42794
that image of the shime coal mine is what happens when you use 64 bit floating point for import and export. With no effects what so ever it turns it into vertical slices like that
those slices are also weird as fuck colors. try looking at it at different levels of zoom, the colors absolutely flip the fuck out.
On to the next databending I did.
ANALOG DATA BENDING
That's right Analog databending is a thing that you can do
1: Take an image
2: SSTV for image to audio
3: microphone to speaker
4: SSTV audio to image
5: not best audio quality
6: mess up the audio after the "header"
7: have other sound like music or noise in the background
all these pictures of tyler dearden are different results I got doing JUST this. with different degrees of tampering.
Some of them have the normal colors…. others get so messed up it can't identify the color properly but damn it tries. i'm just dumping them now
▶ No.42796
Oh yeah, I forgot a gif I made with audio-bending,
▶ No.42801
Also Other things for Databending thread.
So try using a combination of doing one type of databending, Screencapping the results (so that you don't have corrupted data in the new image, but it looks the same), then re-corrupt that in a different way. For instance alternating between audio databend types, and SSTV transmission hacks. Even going so far as find and replace text editor hacks.
screencapping at each stage to avoid unrecoverable errors.
ALSO
for added fun,
Procedurally generated starting images, like fractal flames (I attached one that I made)
Just thought I'd share THOSE ideas as well. Cuz I know some fun can result.
ALSO
If anyone has a DAW like FL Studio, Live, or even a tracker that can use VSTi's. Grab Imageline's "Harmor". It's an additive synth that lets you both
A) Convert sound into layered images to control additive harmonics, which can be edited externally (HINT HINT)
B) Use any image to control additive harmonics, and lets you use the in-synth controls to further manipulate it.
because it's based on harmonics you can then get the images back out after the editing, by just screencapping a spectrogram, the catch being that spectrograms are greyscale.
FUN Addition if you go the extra mile
Split an image into 3 greyscale layers, for red, green, and blue, (Or CMYK layers for that matter), Glitch THOSE independently, then Re-composite them from RGB/CMYK layers into a new kind of hell
the Neon genesis image is one that I took and split into RGB and loaded in harmor, and layered sound ontop of each layer, rendered each, then re-composited in GIMP. it was seriously under-saturated, so of course I Over-saturated it to fix it.
I had one other that was absolutely horrifying, but that one was so janky that I had to purge it from this earth.
▶ No.45639
Here's one I did of Petsu
▶ No.45650
just another glitch in the matrix
▶ No.45732>>45735
and last but not least, a spooky gif to top it off
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▶ No.45787
>Schway
I think you mean "cray cray", Niggerway.
▶ No.46250
Hey guys, I made these by mostly importing and exporting into Audacity without doing any edits. I found that when I import the file and immediately export it again, I get weird visual effects which are different every time. Very odd. And I took like 10 versions and layered them in Gimp and set the transparency to 50% or whatever to get a better effect. Hope you like them, they're not as good as some of yours but whatever, I'm contribootin'.
▶ No.46253
this is the gayest fucking thread