Comment on Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency

• pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are good for glitch art (open in text editor and start mangling and you get some really cool results)

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  • AndreTelevise@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like corrupting 8-bit games, isn’t it?

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    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I couldn’t tell you the technical reasons, but yeah same concept: Break the source data in just the right way that the end result is interpret-able, but with interesting defects. There is a bit of an art to cutting and pasting and sculpting the data in just the right way. You get a feel for it after a while.

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• tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Watch me

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• callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what are bitmap files? are they just a list of pixels or something else

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  • icydefiance@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what they are. Apparently they can optionally use compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn’t do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.

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