{"id":1384,"date":"2014-10-01T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2014-10-01T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:09:37","slug":"pixel-mashing-bots-get-into-a-twitter-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/pixel-mashing-bots-get-into-a-twitter-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel-mashing bots get into a Twitter fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/30\/6875163\/this-is-what-happens-when-two-pixel-mashing-bots-get-in-a-twitter\">reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the red corner, there was @pixelsorter, designed to create relaxed, fuzzy remixes of photos, like the one above. In the blue corner, @badpng was running every image through a broken PNG encoding algorithm, resulting in harsh compression and jarring color shifts. Pixelsorter&#8217;s creator, Way Spurr-Chen, sent the same photo to both bots, locking them in a potentially endless back-and-forth, chewing on the same image over and over until it disintegrated into a mess of pixels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/30\/6875163\/this-is-what-happens-when-two-pixel-mashing-bots-get-in-a-twitter\">Click through<\/a> to see the full weird progression\/disintegration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/30\/6875163\/this-is-what-happens-when-two-pixel-mashing-bots-get-in-a-twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mashed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Mashed.jpg\" alt=\"Mashed\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> [Via Steven Johnson]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge reports, In the red corner, there was @pixelsorter, designed to create relaxed, fuzzy remixes of photos, like the one above. In the blue corner, @badpng was running every image through a broken PNG encoding algorithm, resulting in harsh compression and jarring color shifts. Pixelsorter&#8217;s creator, Way Spurr-Chen, sent the same photo to both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}