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Project Idea: Sound Corrupter

I’ve always really loved the work in /r/glitch_art and have been trying to think of a program that could be used to make glitched art of my own. One idea that just struck me was a Sound Corrupter, a program that would use audio files to glitch images.

The first thing I would likely attempt is a simple program that somehow uses the audio input to apply a distortion to each horizontal line of pixels in an image. This first iteration would likely be a command line program that takes an image as input and present the glitched output at completion. I’m not completely sure how I would use audio files to affect this, but TarsosDSP seems like a good start.

Beyond that, I would like to create an interface that allows the user to see the actual process of distortion. While the audio and image processing may not be able to work in realtime, it would be cool to process the whole image and then have a playback functionality that syncs the music to the glitching process. Development past that would probably just involve adding options that distort the image in different ways.

This is a big project that will be tough with no starting knowledge of sound analysis, but I’m excited to research the idea and see if I can really make something like this work.

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Project Idea: Anatomy Viewer

This is an idea I’ve been thinking about for a while, but I just got excited about it again.

If I ever really get off the ground with anatomy cutaway projects like this one, I'd love to have a simple site that allows me to layer different pictures over each other and control how much of each is showing. Ideally, it would function very similarly to those before/after sliders but it would also allow the user to adjust the angle of the image.

Desired Features:

Custom Sliders: This is the most basic element, and probably the easiest to code. Having a slider that goes left and right is very simple and there are plenty of free versions that I can use as a starting point. Having multiple sliders may be more challenging, and sliders at angles might require something entirely different.

Uploading Images: User should be able to easily browse for images and assign them to a layer. This should also be relatively simple to implement.

Loading and Saving Layered Art: It would be nice to have a custom format that would allow users to load and save their layered art. Whether this would involve saving the entire images to a single file remains to be seen. I know PureRef does something like this, but their code is not publicly available.

Sharing Layered Art: Slightly different from the above, this feature would allow users to share their creations via custom URLs, similar to any hosting site or something like Vocaroo. This may be the trickiest simply because it requires some sort of storage, and I do not have to funds to reliably host any data.

I'm hoping this project would not only be cool, but also give me more experience with JavaScript and HTML5 as well as giving me a chance to dust of my very rusty HTML and CSS skills.