Tag Archive for 'script'

Scripted Bends

Published on 19/07/2010 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Recently there’s been a trend amongst glitch artists to do more video glitches. I’ve been pretty quiet on that front whilst I work on my techniques. Here’s the first results of my experiments using Chris Cunningham‘s short film Rubber Johnny as a test subject

Just from these tests I can see the opportunities that using video presents, especially when using audio. I can definitely see more of my work being like this

Echobender

Published on 01/02/2010 in Art. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images.

Click to download

To use it you’ll need:

  • A computer with Linux installed. I don’t have a Windows or Mac PC so I can’t test it on those
  • Sox. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install sox
  • Convert, which is part of ImageMagick. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Once you have those installed just execute ./echobender.sh from the terminal and then drop a .jpg or .bmp file into it. The output will be in a folder called “echo”.

If you look closely at the script you can see a way to convert any data into an image! I’ll leave that one up to you… Here’s the source code for all those interested:

#!/bin/sh -e
# Echobender
# By Antonio Roberts and Martin Meredith
# www.hellocatfood.com | www.sourceguru.net
# GNU/GPL

segons=`(date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S")`
outfile="${segons}"

if [ ! -d ./echo ]; then
	mkdir ./echo
fi
clear
echo -e "\033[31m---------------------------------------------------- \033[0m"
echo -e "\033[33m Echobender \033[0m"
echo -e "\033[32m---------------------------------------------------- \033[0m"
echo -e "\033[35m---------------------------------------------------- \033[0m"
read -p "DROP A FILE HERE> " foo
echo -e "\033[32mLets bend $foo \033[0m"
echo -e "\033[35m---------------------------------------------------- \033[0m"
foo="$(echo $foo | sed -e "s/'//" | sed -e "s/'//")"
bn=$(basename $foo | sed -e 's/\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*$//')
imsize=$(identify -format "%wx%h" $foo)
cp $foo ./echo
convert ./echo/${bn}.* ./echo/${bn}.bmp
cp ./echo/${bn}.bmp ./echo/${bn}.raw
sox -r 482170 -e u-law ./echo/${bn}.raw ./echo/${bn}2.raw echo 0.8 0.9 5000 0.3 1800 0.25
convert -size $imsize -depth 8 rgb:./echo/${bn}2.raw ./echo/${bn}.$outfile.bmp
rm ./echo/${bn}.raw ./echo/${bn}2.raw ./echo/${bn}.bmp ./echo/${bn}.jpg
echo -e "\033[33mJob done. Check ./echo \033[0m"
echo -e "\033[31m---------------------------------------------------- \033[0m"

Thanks to Imbecil‘s MPegFucker script for much of the inspiration.

Jon Reconstructed

Published on 28/12/2009 in Blog. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Following on from my previous vector reconstruction I decided to reconstruct a much simpler vector portrait of my friend Jon, this time with music by Brad Sucks

Family Build Up

Published on 24/12/2009 in Blog. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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One of the most common questions I, and possibly any other digital artist gets when they present their work is how they do it. I occasionally reveal some of my methods in my tutorials but otherwise I like to show screenshots taken at various stages. I came across this build up script a few months back and have now finally got it to work! Here’s my previous family portrait being reconstructed:

This script isn’t a true reflection of how I drew it but gives a good idea about the amount of detail I go into with my work. The reason I didn’t finish it is that I had already had the script running for ten hours and it was only half finished! Luckily there’s options to resume, but at this rate I’ll be doing it until February!

I think I may do this a lot more with my work.