post pictures your computer has generated ( algorithmic art )

[Clinamenic]

First result and I'm thinking the GAN interpreted "bottom" in a way I did not intend.

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah, so I have changed the text input to:

beige up | jade down | banknote engraving 'treasury'

will post results later

 

[craner]

Death to America

 

[linebaugh]

can you put 'big round ass' into the prompts stan?

 

[Clinamenic]

can you put 'big round ass' into the prompts stan?

It seems I was already on track for that, and with some funky taint jade no less.

 

[Clinamenic]

Death to America

I could try that as a prompt, unless you just meant it yourself, in which case I would assure you that our intentions are to preserve liberal values.

 

[Clinamenic]

We could do a series on Americanta

fire and fury | too big to fail | interventionism | nation-building | trickle-down | big round ass

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah so it looks like this kind of steering could work, just very manually. I did the:

beige up | jade down | banknote engraving 'treasury'

run for 500 iterations, outputting every 50th, and ended up with



which i am using as the initial image for the text input (edit: that is, a new run with a new input):

swirl | fire | '$'

and this is the first result

 

[Clinamenic]

So one could do this kind of reparameterization every so often, and spin the transformation into a different direction, with a different set of textual directions.

 

[Clinamenic]

So now I;m gonna start with a cropping from one of my grandmother's pieces Black Girl's Window



and I'm gonna try to have the GAN latch onto the existing imagery and extrapolate from it. I am using the text input:

hieroglyph | star | moon | eye

 

[Clinamenic]

Although it seems like 50-image intervals here may be too much. I'll run this for a bit, but maybe next time I'll switch it to 10-image intervals.

 

[Clinamenic]

Ah, should have added:

in the style of Betye Saar

 

[Clinamenic]

So I ran it just to get a few results, and then I reordered them into a gif

 

[Clinamenic]

Now I'm trying, with the same initial image:

star | moon | eye | sunburst | in the style of Betye Saar

and I've set the image interval to 10, instead of 50, which I think will make the alterations smoother, finer.

 

[Clinamenic]

Heres the new one, again not fresh outta that notebook, but after I used an online gif-making tool and changed the order of the images:

 

[william_kent]

Now I'm trying, with the same initial image:

star | moon | eye | sunburst | in the style of Betye Saar

and I've set the image interval to 10, instead of 50, which I think will make the alterations smoother, finer.

yeah, if you're looking to make animations, the smaller the interval the better

 

[Clinamenic]

So this new one has four different runs manually edited together and configured. It started with the initial image, a cropping from a piece of her's called Phrenology Man:



And the first run was on text input

Phrenology Man | in the style of Betye Saar

with image interval 2.

And I ran that for maybe 20 iterations, then took that final output, and used it as the initial frame for a second run, with text input:

pink | halo | shine

with image interval 2

and I ran that forward and reverse, to get back to the final image of the first run, which I reused as the initial image for the third run, which had the text input:

afro | vibration | ripple

with image interval 2

and I ran that forward and reverse all the way back to the initial image of the first run, the actual cropping, which became the initial image for the fourth run, which had text input:

crystalline | smoke | violet

again with image interval 2.

So here is the final gif, with 239 images, mostly repeats.

 

[william_kent]

So here is the final gif, with 239 images, mostly repeats.

needs Miles Davis circa Dark Magus period as soundtrack - stellar work

 

[Clinamenic]

This is how I imagine genetic mutation on the phenotypic end, the front end.

The different iterative sequences each with unique input texts, stemming from a common basis, mutative probes, etc.

 

[william_kent]

This is how I imagine genetic mutation on the phenotypic end, the front end.

The different iterative sequences each with unique input texts, stemming from a common basis, mutative probes, etc.

full disclosure: i was a beta tester for "cryptokitties" and although "breeding" was fun, as soon as real money was involved I was OUT

that's why GANs are interesting to me, I'm a open source kind of guy, no money involved at the moment, plenty of source code to play with