file tools question

pixelnoizz's picture

hi,

i made a test yesterday, what is if i load a jpeg file with the kineme file tools (string with files) i manipulate a bit and after i save with text file writer. Its not working, but if i open the jpeg file in a text editor and after i save as a txt file (unicode8), after i load , manipulate with the string replace and then save as a jpeg file, i have some nice glitch result: http://pixelnoizz.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/how-to-generate-corruption/

so the question is that, why i have to save the jpeg first to text and after load with string with files? Why i cannot do it directly?

thanks

david

gtoledo3's picture
Re: file tools question

Even though image data, in a sense, is a string, it isn't traditionally available in Quartz Composer as that kind of data. I agree that if one was to hook an image output to an image with string, or something that converted to a string, that one should see something besides "QCImage". However, what you are asking isn't so much dependent on the function of the current plugins. Most importantly, no image input can take a string directly, and that's totally a QC issue, not a plugin one.

Maybe a plugin could be written that could convert the actual file text into an image, and that could be placed right before a given image port. (Come to think of it, wasn't one of Vade's proposed glitch plugins based on that premise? Not sure if that was released, or if I remember that one correctly.)