Glitchgood puts your photo through every failure of the digital image, gathered in one tool: pieces cut out and pasted back like a post-digital collage, macroblocks that melt like a video stripped of its keyframes (datamosh), a file damaged byte by byte (databending), pixels sorted into long streaks, JPEG compression pushed to ruin, 90s palettes and dithering, a CRT screen and a hacker interface. Add up to two more photos: the collage, datamosh, databending and color channels mix them into the first, and in animation they take turns with glitches at each switch. Each module has its own amount, and 18 recipes give you a starting point.
A compressed video stores only a few complete images (keyframes); the others just describe how blocks of pixels move. Remove the keyframes and those movements apply to the wrong image, so everything starts to flow. Glitchgood recreates this on a photo: the macroblocks slide generation after generation.
It is the art of deliberately damaging a file’s data, as if you opened an image in a text editor and changed its bytes. Depending on the error, strips shift, colors invert or a pattern repeats as an echo.
Yes: add up to two more images in the “Image” section. The “Image mix” setting sets how much room they take in the collage, databending and color channels; in the datamosh, the next image can melt into the first. The “Three sources”, “Corrupted fade” and “Vapor triptych” recipes are made for this.
Yes: turn on the animation, then export as MP4. The datamosh changes direction, slices and corruption jump twelve times per cycle, the terminal types itself, and the loop closes seamlessly.
No, all the computing happens in your browser.
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