Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side)

[Retr0id]

Aside from the jitter option I wouldn't classify this as glitch art.

It (accurately) states "no upload" so the subsequent button probably shouldn't say "Upload Video"

[shit_game]

Similarly to pixel sorting, effects like these fall under New Aesthetic[0], which primarily communicates "digitalness" in some avstract sense. It's cool, but definitely not Glitch. Emulation of some intuitive perception of "this is something computeresque and it's broken or acting how it shouldn't" has tons of applications in media, particularly in commercial creative workflows where actually getting down and dirty with file formats or hardware is either cost or application prohibitive, but will often draw strong criticism from glitch artists. There is a philosophical parallel between this "hard glitch" versus "glitch aesthetic" constrast to criticisms of AI generated images and manmade art, largely centered around the ethos of the work. There's also the undeniable differences in the compositions of hard glitches and new aesthetic media - most hard glitches are ugly, as they're not generally designed to be visually appealing or communicative in the way that new aesthetic deliberately is. The deliberate composition and curation (or complete lack thereof) of hard glitch elements that makes up much glitch art is arguably just as important to its ethos as the hard glitches themselves, IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Aesthetic

[latexr]

Agreed. Cool effect, but it’s not “glitch”.

[stanko]

Nice! I love that it is a single .js file.

I built a similar CSS only glitch effect [1] and I really want to check your code when I get to my laptop to see how did you do it.

[1] https://muffinman.io/blog/css-image-glitch/

[akx]

This inspired me to update my over-a-decade-old glitch generator https://akx.github.io/glitch2/ with camera input and a handful of new modules.

[spechil]

What might be cool is converting each frame to JPEG and then randomly corrupting bits in the SOS section before displaying each frame. Then you'd get proper glitches like what you might see off a damaged memory card.

[junon]

Wow, neat. The art style is cool, but what impresses me most is how it Just Works with the cam record/download bits, even on mobile.

[lwhi]

It leaves my camera on even after I close the tab.