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Glitch ME

for this project i used a scan of myself that my dad did back in 2022. So it is almost the baby version of me. Starting off i was interested in glitching .ply -> Point Cloud and did different tests with it. Somehow i couldn't really get it looking cool and interesting cause i had to use geo nodes in Blender to show the geometry. After this i decided to change the format to .obj and try to glitch myself as .obj. Here i realized that you can do much more interesting glitches. Since an .obj file is structured really simple i started to glitch it with a text editor by copying and deleting certain parts of the file. Also i glitched the different types of maps like texture map, diffuse map e.g. Trying to get a 3D print of myself in the end i had to treat the mesh and close all the holes to get a printable .stl file. Right now as i am writing this text it is still printing... so fingers crossed :) also i was looking into a .py script to glitch random parts of the mesh... but this has to be continued in the summer break i guess.

my takes: -ply is really hard/limited to glitch cause you can't really shift the vertices/points -py script can get super cool. Just need to more deepdiving. -the quality of the scan is important -> how many faces e.g.

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Glitch Me

original scan without any glitching

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the glitched .obj converted into a .stl for 3D printing. "cleaned" up mesh and closed all holes. texture is gone but i am using a tricolor pc in printing. Lets seeee how it turns out. Plenty of things to explore!

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using a .py script in terminal to glitch the .obj file. i am using a glitched image texture on this mesh.

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not a glitch but cmon

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now back to a ply file -> texture is in there aswell. file structure:

ply format ascii 1.0 comment Created in Blender version 4.4.0 element vertex 4525 property float x property float y property float z property uchar green property uchar red property uchar alpha property uchar blue end_header

each point is like this -> -0.11442879 -0.048016157 -0.20503013 31 193 196 255

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glitching a converted ply that is now an obj.

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glitched the same OBJ Data but converted the OBJ into a point cloud using blender geonodes.

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glitched some obj files with hexploder to find some interesting spots.

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3D data -> i am trying to glitch a pointcloud -> the obj is not toooo interesting so far. Need more experiments and understanding of the file format.

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webp images glitched here and put into a gif. funny glitches compared to jpg.

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random browser glitching.