Tag: AI
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Coping with the AI Apocalypse
Painstakingly, I was putting the finishing touches on my analog geometric art – when this video popped into several of my social media feeds: We Need To Talk About AI… by Cool Worlds Podcast Cool Worlds Podcast is run by a team at Columbia University and usually features guests interviewed by physicist David Kipping. This…
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Circles to Circles – Digital Interlude
I wanted to know: How would it feel to replace ruler and compass with the straight lines and circle tools of drawing software? Procreate (the iPad drawing software) does not have anything like a compass. You cannot measure the length of a line segment either, or parallel transport lines exactly. You can create perfect circles…
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Lissajous Trilogy 234
There was 123, so here is 234! When you create an axonometric drawing, the two-dimensional projections are lying flat in the drawing plane. But you do not see how the projection would work in three-dimensional space. In 234 I am attempting to add this additional view: Show both the projections as I need them for…
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Drawing Slowly What Code Could Produce Quickly
Why? I am not trying to answer this question. I am just observing. I’ve started to draw – with compass and ruler – what code could generate in seconds. Or does it? I have forgotten all the jargon I learned in Descriptive Geometry classes decades ago. I am enjoying rediscovering the principles, just playing around.…
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Naming Artworks with Help from Bots: From Celestial Arachnid to Ringscape Skyline
In the old days, my digital artworks were numbered:Reality and Imagination #0 to #12. Then I started Atoll of Diffraction and immediately christened each artwork, giving it a title like Peek through the Peaks. It added another interesting step to the creative process! So, I needed to make Reality and Imagination complete as well! After…
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Found Poetry from nanoGPT’s Sampling of elkemental Text
Will the internet end in the implosion of all that self-referential mess? Will AI generate text from AI-generated text from AI-generated text? Let me be part of that! I used to create Found Poetry from my own articles (and my own poems), but I better make myself redundant and let AI help me! I fed…
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Dystopic Diffraction – ChatGPT and Poetry
I have been creating Found Poetry from search terms, from spam comments, from my own articles. I’ve followed strict rules and constraints. The stricter, the better. I am removing my consciousness as a human being from the creative process (Not my subconsciousness though!). Turning myself into a paper shuffling office clerk, feeding prompts to an…
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Waging a Battle against Sinister Algorithms
I have felt a disturbance of the force. As you might expect from a blog about anything, this one has a weird collection of unrelated top pages and posts. My WordPress Blog Stats tell me I am obviously an internet authority on: how rodents get into kitchen appliances, about the physics of a spinning toy,…
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Gödel, Escher, Bach, and Strange Loops: Nostalgia and Random Thoughts
I am curious – who read the book, too? Did you like it? I read it nearly 30 years ago and I would also tag it one of the most influential books I read as a teenager. [This might grow into a meandering and lengthy post with different (meta-)levels – given the subject of the post I…