# Datamosh Compression

> Blocky compression residues smear colors across neighboring regions in a disrupted video-like image.

[Web page](https://aistylebook.com/image/datamosh-compression/)

## About this style

Datamosh compression evokes locally broken video decoding through blocky residues. Colors and fragments push into neighboring regions along motion-like paths, contrasting readable contours with unstable dragged areas.

Datamoshing borrows disrupted inter-frame prediction, distinct from analog tracking errors.

An arm carrying fragments of earlier background beside a clearer face can suggest one frame persisting into another.

### How the style changes different subjects

- **Portrait**: Tracking shifts, color fringes or block trails interrupt selected features and clothing.

- **Landscape**: Directional smears or mismatched blocks turn scenery into an unstable video image.

- **Object**: Displaced edges and reflections contrast with intact parts of the object's shape.

**Subjects**: Choose stage figures, night streets, electronics or machines with a readable face or silhouette as a stable anchor.

## Visual keywords

compression residue · rectangular macroblocks · cross-region smearing · video glitch · local trails · broken color patches

## Names and related terms

Compression-residue glitch · Macroblock motion smearing

## Style examples

- [Portrait](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/datamosh-compression-people.png?v=3e84db7f7d56a1ce)

- [Landscape](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/datamosh-compression-landscape.png?v=46c630edc457dc96)

- [Object](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/datamosh-compression-objects.png?v=75a0007f481c973a)

## Reusable style prompt

```text
Create a still-frame datamosh aesthetic using conspicuous interframe compression artifacts: rectangular macroblocks, displaced color patches and directional motion-residue smears that carry image fragments into neighboring areas. Keep enough of the original silhouettes and composition to identify the content while letting selected regions break apart into blocky temporal-looking trails. Artifacts should have uneven local intensity and hard block boundaries. Avoid simple RGB channel offsets, scanline-only treatment, random colored confetti or a uniform blur.
```

## Photo creation and prompts

Photo generation requires an account and credits; the cost is shown before generation.

[Create with this style](https://aistylebook.com/photo.html?style=34041&lang=en#studio)

## Related styles

- [Pixel-Sorting Smear](https://aistylebook.com/image/pixel-sorting-smear/): Also drags source colors, with sorting producing straighter streaks and threshold boundaries.

- [VHS Glitch](https://aistylebook.com/image/vhs-glitch/): Uses analog tracking, color bleed and horizontal disturbance instead of compression-block residues.

- [Error-Level Visualization](https://aistylebook.com/image/error-level-visualization/): Keeps compression-like grain and blocks in an artistic dark-field, bright-edge treatment.

## References

- [Rhizome: Artist Profile, Nick Briz](https://old.rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jul/15/artist-profile-nick-briz/)