Author: VR

Images and variations 022423

I spent quite a bit of time today devoted to a couple of subjects. One centered around the idea of a doorway in space-time through which alternate views of reality might flow. The other...

A partial self-portrait

As part of my continuing attempts to engage DALL-E with self-representation, I fed it the following prompt: “a neural network is skiing on its descent gradient”. I think the resulting generation is a thoughtful...

Windmills 021423

I decided to do a series of windmill generations with this prompt: “a burning windmill on a riverbank, surrounded by supplicating zephyrs, under a starry sky”. The results are below. The supplicating zephyrs appear...

College essay on Scrum and Kanban

I teach video game development courses at a community college and I recently gave students in my Production class the following assignment to probe their understanding of two complementary project management methodologies. ChatGPT did...

Images 020823

Many of my generations serve to probe the creative potentials of deep neural networks, but some are also meant to stand on their own as esthetic output. My criteria for such images are rather...

Art images 012823

Many of my generations serve to probe the creative potentials of deep neural networks, but some are also meant to stand on their own as esthetic output. My criteria for such images are rather...

Theme and variations 012123

DALL-E takes a text prompt and generates images based on the AI’s interpretation of that prompt. Having obtained such an image, DALL-E can then create further variations on it, but prompting is no longer...

Some favorite generations 011923

I make a lot of generations and they can be quite different from each other. Here are a few of my favorite recent ones. As in my post “Making vignettes”, most are created from...

AI Vignette for 011723

As with the vignettes created for my book, “AI Vignettes: Chimeras, Wraiths and more”, vignettes for my blog will comprise two components: The first is an image generated by a minimal text prompt to...

AI Vignette for 011223

As with the vignettes created for my book, “AI Vignettes: Chimeras, Wraiths and more”, vignettes for my blog will comprise two components: The first is an image generated by a minimal text prompt to...