my own databending experiments

so, stAllio's databending post finally inspired me to try my hand at it.

since the toast is on his way back here, and i recently rediscovered some old digicam pics (nearly two years old, some of them), i thought i'd use one of him for the experiment.

here's the original:

(no, no experimenting done as yet: that's how he looks! ;)

after quite a bit of futzing around, i got this out:

what i did was:

• open the jpg in photoshop
• save the image as a tif
  
• changed the extension to "txt" and opened it in wordpad
• changed a random character (i think a "K" to a "J")
• saved and closed wordpad
• changed the extension back to tif and opened the image in ms paint
• saved the image as a bmp

i was having a lot of trouble initally, but the key was to work with tif or bmp. according to stAllio!, jpg files are tougher to deal with, as they break easily.

UPDATE: syntax took a whack at it too:

sweet. i have to try this out some more.

UPDATE #2: i was just showing someone what i was talking about, and did this one:

it's just converted to bmp, opened in wordpad and saved. syntax was right; simply opening it in wordpad is enough to goof it up.

UPDATE #3: a couple more.

using Microsoft Word, i got this one:

if you can't see that, here it is in jpg form:

this procedure:

• jpg » bmp
• bmp open in ms word
• ms word saved as plain txt (with bmp extension)

seemed simple, and it opened fine in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (which i hate) but would not display in IE6, and so i couldn't be sure about uploading it for you all to see (it works in firefox).

i had to use WP&FV to save it as a jpg for the above image to show in IE6.

in addition to this, i used worpad on the bmp (before conversion) and, predictably, got this one:

as you can see, it's got the ms word warp as before, but with the additional "wordpad effect", as the earlier bends had.