[HN Gopher] Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side)
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       Show HN: Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side)
        
       Author : yz-yu
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2026-02-17 06:35 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | Retr0id wrote:
       | Aside from the jitter option I wouldn't classify this as glitch
       | art.
       | 
       | It (accurately) states "no upload" so the subsequent button
       | probably shouldn't say "Upload Video"
        
         | latexr wrote:
         | Agreed. Cool effect, but it's not "glitch".
        
         | shit_game wrote:
         | Similarly to pixel sorting, effects like these fall under New
         | Aesthetic[0], which primarily communicates "digitalness" in
         | some avstract sense. It's cool, but definitely not Glitch.
         | Emulation of some intuitive perception of "this is something
         | computeresque and it's broken or acting how it shouldn't" has
         | tons of applications in media, particularly in commercial
         | creative workflows where actually getting down and dirty with
         | file formats or hardware is either cost or application
         | prohibitive, but will often draw strong criticism from glitch
         | artists. There is a philosophical parallel between this "hard
         | glitch" versus "glitch aesthetic" constrast to criticisms of AI
         | generated images and manmade art, largely centered around the
         | ethos of the work. There's also the undeniable differences in
         | the compositions of hard glitches and new aesthetic media -
         | _most_ hard glitches are ugly, as they 're not generally
         | designed to be visually appealing or communicative in the way
         | that new aesthetic deliberately is. The deliberate composition
         | and curation (or complete lack thereof) of hard glitch elements
         | that makes up much glitch art is arguably just as important to
         | its ethos as the hard glitches themselves, IMO.
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         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Aesthetic
        
       | spechil wrote:
       | What might be cool is converting each frame to JPEG and then
       | randomly corrupting bits in the SOS section before displaying
       | each frame. Then you'd get proper glitches like what you might
       | see off a damaged memory card.
        
       | lwhi wrote:
       | It leaves my camera on even after I close the tab.
        
       | stanko wrote:
       | Nice! I love that it is a single .js file.
       | 
       | I built a similar CSS only glitch effect [1] and I really want to
       | check your code when I get to my laptop to see how did you do it.
       | 
       | [1] https://muffinman.io/blog/css-image-glitch/
        
       | junon wrote:
       | Wow, neat. The art style is cool, but what impresses me most is
       | how it Just Works with the cam record/download bits, even on
       | mobile.
        
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