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datamoshing

datamoshing is the present participle and gerund of datamosh.

Meaning of datamosh

Verb

datamosh (third-person singular simple present datamoshes, present participle datamoshing, simple past and past participle datamoshed)

  1. To intentionally corrupt a digital video, creating a surreal effect.
    • To understand datamoshing, you need to know about I- and P-frames. Digital video files are made up of sequences of different types of frames. I-frames (also referred to as keyframes) are full representations of a single frame of the video.2009 April 28, Ben Baker-Smith, “Datamoshing – The Beauty of Glitch -- Bit_Synthesis”, in Bit_Synthesis (blog), archived from the original on 16 Nov 2010

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Questions about datamoshing

What is datamoshing the present participle and gerund of?
Datamoshing is the present participle and gerund of datamosh.

Words near datamoshing in the dictionary

  1. datamines
  2. datamining
  3. datamosh
  4. datamoshed
  5. datamoshes
  6. datamoshing
  7. Datangian
  8. DataOps
  9. datapad
  10. datapads
  11. datapath

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