On 7th March I’ll be delivering a short workshop at BOM on using ImageMagick for image manipulation.
Join us for local food and drinks from Southside and get hands-on making with a bunch of like-minded folks interested in art and tech. This new monthly event aims to inspire emerging creatives and offer peer-to-peer tech support in a friendly, collaborative environment. Each workshop is different, featuring a different guest speaker and activities.
There’s no doubt that emoji is here to stay and will infiltrate your artwork, desktop, phone screens and inboxes if it hasn’t already done so. In a similar vein to ASCII art, recently apps have been released to convert pixels in images and video to emoji. Emoji Video and Emojify are two iOS apps that can convert content to emoji, with the former appearing to be able to do this in realtime with video.
Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images.
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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”.
One of my overall goals is to find a way to databend live video. I’m sure there’s a way to do it with Processing and PureData but I’m not yet proficient in those programs so they’re out of the question for now. In the meantime I thought to try and hack the Echobender script to databend my webcam images.
tonyg provides a great tutorial on how to convert live webcam images into audio, which I’ve used as a starting point for my hack.