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Databending Queens Hack Nights October21st

Databending Queens Hack Nights October21st

this is mostly pictures so it won't make sense on it's own, sorry

Max Bittker

October 21, 2014
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  1. • Wordpad does at least two things to a binary

    file: – replaces byte 07 (ascii: BEEP) with a space – replaces every lonely 0A , 0B, or 0D (line feed, vertical tab, carriage return) with the bytes "0D 0A” • Rate of glitching is related to how dark the picture is, lost of low bytes -> lots of new pixels being introduced
  2. JPEG uses a lossy form of compression based on the

    discrete cosine transform (DCT). This mathematical operation converts each frame/field of the video source from the spatial (2D) domain into the frequency domain (aka transform domain.) - wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
  3. etc