![]() Thus, I got three similar-but-different glitches. I used those numbers on the left to make sure of this. The way I made the GIF on the top of this post was saving several different versions of the image, where I glitched the exact same spot each time. If you are super curious to know what those numbers would be in decimal, and you don’t want to do the calculations yourself, you can use any number of hex conversion calculators. However they are in hex, so that is why they don’t look like ordinary decimal line numbers. The numbers in the far left-hand field are sort of like line numbers, to help you keep track of where you are in the file. ![]() It will probably look something like this: Oh the saved game files I have edited in my day No need to change the extension, the hex editor has seen it all. Once you have your hex editor of choice, go ahead and open any old image file. If not, then I can recommend something like Frhed or Bless. Mayhaps you already have one on your computer, from those days you spent editing your save files to cheat enhance your PC gaming experience. You won’t get around the fact that you’re going to need a hex editor if you want to glitch those binary files without destroying them. Notepad will open it and pretend like it did it correctly and hope for your approval as it silently corrupts your image, whereas GEdit will actually have the good sense to say, “Hey, WTF is this encoded with? This doesn’t make any sense and you will only end up corrupting your file if you continue.” But either way, you’re not getting any glitches out of those text editors. Oh Notepad and GEdit will try to open your. Image files are encoded in binary, whereas most text files are in Unicode, so your basic text editor on your Windows or Linux computer is going to try and translate the binary into ASCII, with horrendous file-corrupting results (even if you just open the image in your text editor, make no changes, and save it it will be corrupt, in addition to never being an image again). ![]() So here is my write-up on glitch art for the rest of us! THE COLOURS! Doc wrote up a pretty good Glitch Primer which was, unfortunately, really only applicable to Macs.
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