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Glitch Art
This article describes a recognised Poopism: a method of video editing that has been used by a number of poopers.
Glitch art
Glitch art is a style used to create glitchy, abstract art and any other sorts of unique artifacts. This was discovered through rendering errors where some frames were not rendered out as expected and thus the frames are broken. The natural approach from glitch art is from the web where the web page does not load correctly or through an incomplete download. There are several techniques used to create glitch art.
Datamoshing
Datamoshing is achieved when one clip gets applied to another clip. This depends on the video compression where it does not store every single pixel in the frame. When compressed it either turns into an I-frame, or a P-frame. The I-frame is simply an image where every single pixel is memorised in the video while the P-frame only records the movement of the I-frame. The most common codec used for datamoshing is the XviD codec, but with the principles of video compression it can be used by other lossy codecs such as WMV and MPEG.
There are two types of datamoshing: The smudging effect and the splicing effect. You can read the tutorial by Sploltoen on how to datamosh using those two methods.
Smudging effect
The smudging effect is where the same P-frame is copied several times to the video clip creating a smudging-like effect.
Splicing effect
The splicing effect is achieved either with a section of P-frames been copied to a different video clip or by removing the I-frames in it.
Databending
Databending is a bit like datamoshing but is done by using software to physically modify data inside the file. Common uses of this technique is to corrupt a compressed file using a ROM corrupter, Hex editor or through notepad. This can be achieved through trial and error.
Common software used for glitch art
- Avidmeux
- Audacity
- Any Video Converter
- Adobe Photoshop
- Notepad++
- HxD (Hex editor)
People who use this style
- Sploltoen
- laromande
- Sid
- Fiv95
- CorruptionSound
- Another Brick In The Wall
