Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image

Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:36PM (#33567793)

reminded me of (albeit a bit of a different concept):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

> The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Due to the room's particular size and geometry, certain frequencies of the recording are emphasized while others are attenuated. Eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the characteristic resonant frequencies of the room itself.

performance recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtO4DsSazc

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by TonyTrapp on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:49PM (#33567899)

The experiment has also been brought to the 21st century and its video and audio codecs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0 - uploading a video 1000 times to YouTube.

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by dylan604 on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:06PM (#33568029)

reminds me of the old days of 4 track recording where you'd bounce 3 channels down to one, rerecord, bounce again. lather rinse repeat. by the time you got to the 3 or so round (depending on the quality of the tape) it would be pretty gnarly.

back when i worked in a VHS dubbing facility, we'd get bored and do stupid stuff like this taking a master to VHS, then using the VHS as a master to make dub of dub of dub. after the 8th dub, it was pretty trash. Similarly, we'd take a video in -> video out to another VCR -> video out cascading down until the original signal to the video in of the last VCR was trash. (the place was wired correctly with proper video DAs. we did this because it was 3rd shift and no supervision)

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by mrloop on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:15AM (#33572053)

This brings back memories of art school, a friend recorded themselves running up and down a hill and made many copies of copies of the video on VHS. They displayed different generations of the degrading video side by side on a bank of monitors.

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by iamacyborg on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:08AM (#33572326)

There’s also a fun version of this but it’s a song run through google translate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMkJuDVJdTw

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by spython on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:37PM (#33568267)

I used a similar concept to repeatedly upscale and zoom in on an image with different super resolution algorithms. At some point only the idiosyncrasies of the algorithm remain: https://rybakov.com/project/im_sitting_in_ai/

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by liamwire on Saturday November 12, 2022 @05:43AM (#33571906)

I found this absolutely mesmerising – thank you!

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by smcl on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:42AM (#33572180)

This was a really fun idea and was well executed. Thanks!

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by tsol on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:25PM (#33577256)

This is strangely beautiful.

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by jephson on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:22PM (#33569914)

A cheeky response to Lucier's work: https://coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2004-004-iron-maidens...

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Re:Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image by dtgriscom on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:29AM (#33572859)

A low-fidelity version of Frippertronics.

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