sevenrad-stills

Poetic interpretation of digital media through algorithmic transformation

sevenrad-stills is a Python application for extracting video frames and transforming them through compression, degradation, and creative image processing operations. The project explores digital media materiality through the artistic voices of Arthur Rimbaud and Dominique de Groen.

Quick Start

  1. Installation - Set up sevenrad-stills
  2. Getting Started - Your first image transformation
  3. Tutorials - Hands-on examples with compression and degradr effects

Features

  • Extract frames from YouTube videos at configurable intervals
  • Apply compression artifacts (JPEG quality, downscaling, motion blur)
  • Create degradation effects (blur, noise, chromatic aberration, sensor artifacts)
  • Chain operations in YAML pipelines for complex transformations
  • Non-destructive processing with intermediate step preservation

Artistic Philosophy

Clinical, marketing-inspired language and exhaustive repetition offer a critical analysis of late-stage capitalism, ecological crises, and exploitation, creating a bizarre and alienating yet recognizable reality.

Images are processed non-destructively, tracking transformations through incremental steps. Each operation becomes a layer in the digital palimpsest, revealing the computational structures that construct seeing itself.

Documentation

Tutorials

Step-by-step guides demonstrating compression filters and degradr effects

Operations

Complete reference for all image processing operations

Reference

Filter parameters and YAML pipeline system documentation

Extract. Degrade. Transform.

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Algorithmic transformation exploring digital media through the artistic voices of Rimbaud and Dominique de Groen.