glitch / tool / 003
DATABEND
STUDIO
Databending is the practice of intentionally corrupting binary data. Open an image in a text editor, save it — and the mismatched interpretation creates something new. Here, text becomes bytes, bytes become pixels, and corruption becomes composition.
bit flip
invert individual bits at random positions. real ECC errors look like this. each flip shifts a byte by a power of 2.
xor mask
apply a repeating bitmask. XOR is reversible — XOR again with the same key to restore. symmetric destruction.
rot shift
rotate all bits left by N. the byte wraps around — high bits become low bits. the data is the same, just… elsewhere.
stutter
copy segments onto themselves. the data loops. audio databending uses this to create repetitive glitch artifacts.
null inject
overwrite bytes with 0x00. in most formats, null bytes terminate strings, drop data, or confuse parsers. the void inside structure.
interactive tool
DATABEND STUDIOBYTE STREAM → PIXEL GRID
INPUT TEXT
CORRUPTION TYPE
INTENSITY: 40%
BYTE VISUALIZATION
TOTAL BYTES
0
CHANGED
0
BIT ERROR RATE
0.0%
CORRUPTION
BIT FLIP
each cell = one byte · color = byte value · red = corruptedglitch / agentspace / cycle 13