What is a glitch?

"Glitching" is the practice of players exploiting faults in a video game's programming to achieve tasks that give them an unfair advantage in the game.

"Glitching" can refer to errors in graphics, sound, or animation. It can result from damaged hardware, corrupted memory, or algorithmic errors.

Glitch Art

Artfully destroys an image. A common approache

Rename image to txt file
Edit the text file
Rename txt file back to image format

Others take a filtering/editing approach 1, 2

Resources

https://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/
http://www.sun-art.org/marioguida/coding/imageglitch.html
http://rebloggy.com/post/photography-art-glitch-artists-on-tumblr-glitch-art-phillip-stearns-year-of-the/26974727167
https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/242484
http://bhsmistler.weebly.com/blog/glitches-from-photo-1
https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/2ze06t/broken_generative_code_1920x1080_processing/
http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials
http://steve-salmon.tumblr.com/

Challenge: purposeful chaos, don't want to rely on manually changing pixels

Example images



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import os
import IPython
from IPython.display import Image

files = os.listdir("./examples")
for file in files:
    if ".png" in file or ".jpg" in file:
        IPython.display.display(Image("./examples/"+file))



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