Databending Panoramas, Trippy visuals for Windows users Options

[sartor]

I wanted to use Panoramas to depict my hero's journey into the collective unconscious/psyche/City of Dolor. An abstract, Serial-Experiments-Lain-type trip, and a tough task. I didn't know where to start.

Then I stumbled upon glitch art, specifically the Wordpad Effect.

Examples from my game:




Take an image, save it as a 256-color bitmap, open it in wordpad! Wordpad reads the file as a stream of characters, which it attempts to auto-correct, thus skewing the data. Save, then reopen in an image viewer. Results will vary.

Links:
Tutorial
Glitch Art writeup in Wired

Great for any trippy, hallucinatory, Gainax-y situation, especially confrontations with deities or Wave Existences. Let me know if you make use of this! I'd love to play a glitched out game.

P.S. There are also ways to glitch out music, look up "circuit bending" and "glitch music."

This post has been edited by sartor: May 12 2012, 02:18 PM

[Kaust]

That is really cool and could make for some interesting parallaxing. Do you have a demo or anything up? I'd like to see it in action.
Have you heard about the LSD game that was released exclusively in Japan (its nothing to do with drugs, its about lucid dreaming), anyways I think you'd like it, and Serial Experiments Lain was just great wasn't it?