Refik Anadol has developed software that can melt one form into another in an ever-evolving flow of dreamlike images. Forms that we think of as stable—such as architecture—rise and fall away like the tides and the flowers.
(Link to YouTube) The system draws on a collection of over 300,000 photographic images. The process uses a generative adversarial network, where one computer network creates images and the other judges whether the result is plausible.
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Latent History – a machine dream of a Stockholm that never was (Thanks, K-Blogg)
It's a very cool computer project, but at least to me- it's very disconcerting to watch. Maybe we expect things to be stable and consistent and this violates that.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been a similar feeling when people first saw time lapse film of clouds, tides, and plant growth.
ReplyDeleteOof! That makes me quite seasick.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think of Alex Kanevsky's work . If Dali were to see this , I could see him being entranced by it , and then perhaps depressed at the thought of a program doing what he did by hand .
ReplyDeleteThat can be quite usefull as an effect in a sci-fi or fantasy movie.
ReplyDeleteThat was Amazing!!! I was mesmerized and then drawn into the cafe interior morphing part - I'd swear one of those photos was a cafe in Savannah; Gryphon, on the corner of Bull and Charlton Streets.
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