Label glitches in the Sahara.
Light Map of SW United States
A really lovely, slightly glitchy satellite map of lights over the southwest United States. Taken on August 31, 2000 and found buried deep in the NOAA FTP server.
Cursor Glitch Studies
Weird blur/glitching when zoomed in really close on the cursor in Mac OS X.
Hand Scan
Stack Focusing Glitch
Glitch trying to use Photoshop’s stack focusing algorithm on a barely-there image.
Crumpled Microfilm
An amazing image via my colleague Alex Wellerstein: a muster roll for the USS Growler from 1963, crumpled up before being shot to microfilm. If I had to choose, I think I like glitched data the best.
Thanks Alex for the image (via US National Archives and Records Administration).
SDR Weather Map
A NOAA weather satellite image captured through SDR (via RTL-SDR).
Inpainting
Totally obsessed with the idea of inpainting, used to reconstruct and remove items from images automatically. I’m especially in love with the glitchy, Predator-esque ghosting that remains.
This is very easy to accomplish with OpenCV and a few lines of code – here I’ve run this with a radius of 5px. The results are actually pretty usable, especially in busy or small areas of the image.
The very simple code to run everything:
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import numpy as np import cv2 input_image = 'bedroom.jpg' mask_image = 'bedroom-mask3.jpg' radius = 5 img = cv2.imread(input_image) mask = cv2.imread(mask_image) mask = cv2.cvtColor(mask, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) dest = cv2.inpaint(img, mask, radius, cv2.INPAINT_TELEA) cv2.imwrite('Telea-' + str(radius) + '.jpg', dest) |
And here’s the same input, but with a really weird, blobby, random mask:
h/t Miriam Redi
Minecraft Panorama
Panorama of moonset/sunrise in Minecraft, during a nature walk (click for full-size).
Scan Glitch
superb technical program that features over 100 sessions, among them
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