{"id":632638,"date":"2010-01-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5449780"},"modified":"2010-01-16T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:00:00","slug":"american-pixels-series-makes-art-of-artifacts-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/632638","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Pixels&#8221; Series Makes Art of Artifacts [Compression]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_takeoffcrop.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/>J\u00f6rg M. Colberg, an accomplished astrophysicist and photographer, created a series of images entitled &#8220;American Pixels&#8221; in which he applied a self-made compression algorithm to photographs, turning them into artworks of the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>But Colberg&#8217;s works aren&#8217;t just commentaries on the state of images in an age of lossy file types. He designed his own compression algorithm that responds uniquely to the contents of each photograph.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5449779,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For Colberg, the compression becomes part of the creative progress. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/pixels\/pixels.htm\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A computer that creates a jpeg does not know anything about the contents of the image: It does what it is told, in a uniform manner across the image.<\/p>\n<p>My idea was to create a variant that followed in the footsteps of what jpegs do, but to have the final result depend on the original image&#8230;adaptive compression (acomp) is a new image algorithm where the focus is not on making its compression efficient but, rather, on making its result interesting&#8230;As computer technology has evolved to make artificial images look ever more real &#8211; so that the latest generation of shooter and war games will look as realistic as possible &#8211; acomp is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The American Pixel renders are intended for hanging on walls, allowing the viewer to study the different layers of pixelated detail by move closer and farther away from the work.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_zoom.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>To see the whole set of these fascinating works, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmcolberg.com\/pixels\/index.html\">Colberg&#8217;s collection<\/a>. 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