In the book of Patrice Van Eersel named "The fifth dream" (Le cinquième rêve in french), a legend is told to the author by a native indian cherokee. The legend says that human beings are a dream of dolphins and whales and ends with this :
And here I say to you: Be very careful! For you see:
In every colour, all light is buried.
In every pebble on the side of the road there is a crystal sleeping.
In the smallest blade of grass lies a baobab.
And in every earthworm, there is a whale.
As for us, we are not "the most beautiful animal", we are the dream of the animal! And this dream is still unfulfilled.
What would happen if we eliminated the last of the whales that are dreaming about us?
The book is an unusual journalistic investigation about dolphins all around the globe taking you into a journey going far beyond our material world. At some point even reality is in question :Is the future of mankind really played out in images? What kind of crazy dreamer is virtual reality? What do we know about reality? And what if the rest of the game led to absolute chaos, introduced by the cosmic madman that the dolphin 'dreamed': man?
You will never look at dolphins the same way.
Creative Process Note
As i wanted to test new pictures tools, i choose to focus the creation on deep blue sea and whales topic which i hope could have a healing effect as you watch it.
first init image with distillation
In this series of deep blue sea pictures generated by AI tools, i obtained those results by initially using the first picture that was created with help of VQGAN distillation with a prompt around dolphins painted by Enki Bilal.
Then I used this picture as init image parameter to the recent IC-GAN tool from Facebook without any conditional class (ic-gan) several times. Some of them were selected to be refined via a color image denoising and real world image super-resolution tool.
Others were re-used as init images for other variations and derivations. The anemone picture was created by iterating the result about ten times using the conditional class named sea-anemone into the cc-ic-gan option of the tool.
I was surprised that some of picture this sci-fi tone of weird creatures. But at difference of VGQAN+CLIP, those pictures contain less circularity and repetitions while gaining a bit of coherence and details.
The anemone picture was created by iterating the result about ten times using the conditional class named sea-anemone into the cc-ic-gan
Relax and stay tuned. All text by me this time, not AI.