Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Databending Text Edit Experiment - Own Photograph

There are different ways to data bend photographs, therefore I experimented with as many ways a possible to allow me to compare the results. The result shown in this post was created by using the TextEdit program to change the coding for the image when opened within this program. The coding could be changed by copying and pasting different parts of the code and pasting it elsewhere in the code, allowing the glitch to happen.




This evidences the TextEdit program being used to change the coding for the photograph. The photograph has been opened within TextEdit to display the coding for this photograph. The code has been changed around by copying different parts of the code and pasting it elsewhere within the code, thus allowing the photograph to contain glitches. 


This is a preview of the photograph which evidences that the manipulation is in progress, showing the results from the TextEdit experiment. The different parts of the code affect different parts of the photograph resulting in a variety of different colours and various different lengths of the line created. During experimenting with TextEdit I found this to be the most successful program to glitch photographs in as I prefer the line effect. This also allows for a variety of different colours to appear within the photograph rather than a select few which has happened in the previous attempts of data bending with the different techniques. However, even though this experiment works better in terms of the outcome, it is extremely time-consuming. The reason being is that if you copy and paste parts of the code to another line and this doesn't work, a section of the photograph will appear black which isn't ideal. Therefore when this mistake happens (which is very often) this has to be undone to ensure that the black section is removed. This happened an awful lot when pasting different parts of the code, especially when have very little experience with coding.

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