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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Dreaming Jewels

A few months ago all the cool kids started using the Goofle Dream Machine. Now grown-up sister and the Doktorling Sonja have been showing off their fractal shuggoths, in an attempt to shame me into doing the same, which they will surely come to regret.

Turns out when you cycle an image repeatedly through the Gooflator, the distortions converge on a stable state after a few iterations.

This is partly because the templates it was been trained on and is trying to impose are orientation-specific... so if you really want to fuck an image over, you rotate it 90° between each iteration.

This is the way to reveal the CODE DEEP SEVEN technology that lurks in the darkness under the table. But to find the sad pekinese faces in the wall, it helps to invert the colour palette before goofling and then invert again afterwards.

There seem to be a lot of wine goblets lurking, latent, in the morphogenetic furniture of our lounge.
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13 comments:

  1. rhwombatSeptember 24, 2015 at 1:25 AM

    Hmmm. The second morphing sequence looks like a nasty case of thrush.

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  2. Smut ClydeSeptember 24, 2015 at 3:39 AM

    Rule 34 warns us that Google probably have another neural-network image-processor package that has been trained to recognise and classify porn images by superimposing templates of human turgid bits. What *that* will do to an ambiguous background does not bear thinking about.

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  3. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©September 24, 2015 at 6:34 AM

    Seems that the word "eldritch" belongs in here somewhere.
    ~

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  4. OBSSeptember 24, 2015 at 12:56 PM

    Thank you kindly, I didn't know until now that I needed that.

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  5. tigrisSeptember 24, 2015 at 1:31 PM

    Does it have no setting other than "acid?"

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  6. Smut ClydeSeptember 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM

    Why would you want one?

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  7. tigrisSeptember 24, 2015 at 2:34 PM

    Hey, variety worked for spiders, maybe the google would like it too.

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  8. UnknownSeptember 25, 2015 at 12:41 AM

    Why would you want one?

    I dunno, "mushrooms" or "mescaline" or "I haven't really slept in three months" could also be interesting.

    I've heard rumors that there are other versions of this things that weren't trained quite so heavily on pictures of dogs or slugs or whatever. (Dogslugs!) I don't think they are actually public, though, which makes me wonder what exactly they were trained on, of course.

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  9. Smut ClydeSeptember 25, 2015 at 1:43 AM

    I think tigris is asking for the spider-trained version.

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  10. OBSSeptember 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM

    Did somebody say spider?

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  11. Smut ClydeSeptember 25, 2015 at 3:54 PM

    Jennifer will find that very helpful, OBS.

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  12. OBSSeptember 25, 2015 at 4:01 PM

    I am always very helpful to those with seizure disorders and/or arachnophobia.

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  13. rhwombatSeptember 25, 2015 at 7:46 PM

    ...an inordinate fondness for armadillos?

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