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 has to be the most interesting RM game I've ever seen (I decided to watch some of the other vids), looking for a download now. Ever since LSD I've been thinking about trying to do something similar, this databending technique would be a definite asset.
For something intended as a joke game that is a pretty developed and frankly just really good idea you've got going there (I woulda gone with something more 'psychedelic' like Jefferson Airplane over VU, but its your game), you really should upload it (unless you want it to stay between you and your friend), there's no need to worry about infringement and all that jazz if you make some attempt at creditting whoever (and would they see it? would they have a problem with it if they did? I always think people should consider intertextuality as free advertising).

[sartor]

I always think people should consider intertextuality as free advertising.

Amen! I'll at least send you a copy. As for Yume Nikki, if you like it, check out its unofficial fan community "uboachan."