Make your own glitchy images w/ audacity!
- Save to an uncompressed format (.bmp works great!)
- import into audacity as Raw Input w/ Encoding: U-Law and Byte Order; Big Endian
- Play with effects on all but the first quarter second or so (to avoid messing up headers)
- export to format "Other uncompressed files" and click options, set Header to RAW and encoding to U-Law. If you have issues, rename from .raw to .bmp!
Example image:
*stares at this status for a while, reading, re-reading, re-re-reading*
*pours herself a shot, starts again*
*repeats step two several times until no longer focused on words*
@sydneyfalk sorry if i wasn't terribly verbose/clear, let me snag some screenshots for ya
@acostoss I'm v. rusty technically, and barely know what audacity even is
so really I'm just making a dumb joke
(and also, I'm very drunk now, so please do not feel you need to screenshot, I am probably past 'understanding', I am barely at 'typing coherently')
@sydneyfalk haha no worries, i thought it was a joke but thought i should err on the side of misunderstanding JUST IN CASE ya know?
and ye it is kinda hard to get going but once ya get in the groove it gets easier
@acostoss I believe it's probably the case, it is with most things. And I do appreciate the offer even though I couldn't appreciate the finromation ^_^
ha, oh christ, now I'm trying to figure out what 'finromation' is
thinking it's a term used by shark movement capture technicians
@sydneyfalk I was thinking automation, like the automation of ocean currents to ease a fin's ability to glide through the water??
actually that makes about as much sense as the word does
@acostoss and actually, I could use the thing you're describing in this idea for an underwater setting with a living submarine that's actually a genetically re-engineered whale with a gigantic 'air bladder' that all equipment and personnel stay inside
maybe that's why they have specific trade routes -- finromation engines allow for reduced feeding of the ship on those routes, saves fuel
@sydneyfalk the fuel being the crew, something else carried aboard, or what it skims during the travels?
@acostoss the fuel is food it skims in travel, picks up on refueling trips through large krill pockets, or is fed from sealed containers inside the crew area
it's engineered with a second passage into the stomach from the air bladder -- difficult to use, dirties the air of the crew space somewhat, but it's only for adding fuel reserves while still inside the ship
@sydneyfalk ooo I see now, very interesting!
thank you! :) still gotta figure out if this is far-future Earth or far-far-far-far future extrasolar human colonies, or somehow time travelers came back with the genetech and re-engineered the ceta-subs based on their own future tech to explore current time's oceans to find something destroyed in the future
kinda liking that last one, actually -- but I'm sure it's all got more iteratoining to go through ^_^ ideas take time to bake, just like meatloaf
@acostoss (hopefully it's all right if I use that concept, in eventual published fiction)
@sydneyfalk (yeah by all means~)
@acostoss
I was thinking abck to all the things like 'rotoscoping' and all the specialized terminogoly that the animation industry uses