Halcyon

Halcyon , 1 day ago

Finally a use case for the Apple cheese grater!

Halcyon , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

North Pole × South Pole: The Polar Reinbear Penguin

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/1c2b1226-cc0e-4575-9440-c8a9fe382765.jpeg

Halcyon , 5 days ago

Purrfect!

Halcyon , 9 days ago

Reminds me of Europe's Wings of Tomorrow.

Halcyon , 13 days ago

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/3313a2a5-dba6-4a2c-80ac-de06ee657cd0.jpeg

Prompt: A nightly photo of a street scene: A single person is calmly walking down a small path at midnight in an urban surrounding with fully detached houses with garden. There are few street lamps and a crescent moon in a starry summer sky. Vintage photography style.

Halcyon , 15 days ago

That's the new Marilyn Manson album, isn't it?

Halcyon OP , 15 days ago

Your first one looks great, that would be a nice exhibit for a bike fair.

My prompt was:
a very cool green bike with a knot in the frame and pink tires

Halcyon , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

What do you dislike?

Coal is used less in Germany every year since 20 years and being shut down until 2035.

Other fossil energy sources like oil and nuclear energy are also vanishing.

Wind, solar, water and biomass are rising constantly. That's sustainable.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/981a9be8-55cb-4659-99af-c6627c2666fb.png

Halcyon , 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

The latin term 'fossilis' means "dug up". You might think about by yourself what that means in regard to Uranium.

Nuclear energy is not as clean or cheap as it is portrayed.

Halcyon , 15 days ago

M.C. Escher's Shopping Mall

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/59e2aa24-1fa4-42f4-8363-9d96914a3ac4.jpeg

It's really hard to get something upside down from the AI generator. I went for Escher's stairs and wanted to place them inside a shopping mall. As a workaround I could get the stairs inverted and added a polished floor as a mirror. Still not very convinced by the results, here's the best one I could get after several iterations.

Prompt: a scenic view inside a shopping mall with a black shiny floor that's polished like a mirror. There are several inverted stairs in a confusing upside-down architecture, similar to an image by M.C. Escher. Some people walk upside down on the underside of the stairs.

Halcyon , 14 days ago

Elysium also had a similar scene:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/8654a2dc-1da0-4433-8f68-6a9af1da5e5c.jpeg

Halcyon , 27 days ago

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/3e27dd2e-7fb5-4735-8814-e3257af87cbc.jpeg

Prompt: Sailor Moon as an old crazy Grandma

Halcyon , 28 days ago

Half Life 4 confirmed!!

Halcyon , 1 month ago

Moonolith

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/a0bd3bc6-f15e-4781-8cf4-e327b2785a4f.jpeg

Prompt: a photorealistic picture of an astronaut walking on the surface of the moon, seen from behind. you can see his steps in the moon dust. there's also a small crater. the astronaut encounters a huge black monolith similar to the iconic opening scene of the movie "2001 Odyssey in space". In the sky above there's a nebula and the sun. The image is somewhat grainy like a photograph.

Halcyon , 30 days ago

The first sailor moon I can upvote ⬆️

Halcyon , 1 month ago

TeamLab?

Halcyon , 1 month ago

Ah thanks! I love artwork like that. I just visited TeamLab's Planets installations two weeks ago in Tokyo. Some of their works are mirrored rooms too.

https://arquitecturaviva.com/articles/museo-digital-teamlab-planets-tokyo

Halcyon , 1 month ago

Evening, sir.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/c7a6c6cb-a80f-42c3-80ea-044931b17559.jpeg

Prompt: a photorealistic picture of a one-eyed mech, dressed in an elegant outfit like a detective with a beige coat, a grey suit and a burgundy tie, standing on an empty nightly street in the light cone of a street lamp.

Halcyon , 1 month ago

It's not freedom if it contradicts science and goes against healthcare for the public.

Halcyon , 2 months ago

Something similar existed in 2013 already:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/now-you-can-control-video-games-with-your-thoughts-alone-2005031/

Halcyon , 2 months ago

I didn't say there's no difference in the technology used. But the results are quite comparable at the moment. Maybe that can be changed and further developed in future. But is much much more dangerous to implant than to put a cap on your head. So I say don't be fooled by the marketing of Neuralink.

Halcyon , 2 months ago

Great insightful comment, thanks!

Halcyon , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I say in every art form you'll find more copies than originals. Literature, cinema, paintings, photography, music... Everybody who's creative is copying and reusing and recombining and sampling and synthesizing ideas.

And that's true also for computer generated art.

The difference is that it's hardly possible to claim ownership for a picture or a video that was automatically generated by algorithms.

Halcyon , 2 months ago

He's obviously desperately trying to revive the image of being a genius again. But everybody knows what kind of charlatan he is.

Halcyon , 3 months ago

Brave is evil.

Halcyon , 4 months ago

Diese Reaktion von Jürgen Trittin fand ich ziemlich gut, der klar unterschieden hat zwischen den Angehörigen des Bauernverbandes, die sehr friedlich mit Cem Özdemir dort zu einem Treffen zusammengekommen sind - und dem organisierten rechten Mob vor der Halle, die Angriffe auf Polizeibeamte und Fahrzeuge durchgeführt haben.

"Es sind keine Proteste gegen die Grünen! Wenn eine Veranstaltung eines Ministerpräsidenten, eines Bundesministers und der Vorsitzenden einer Regierungspartei nicht mehr durchgeführt werden kann, weil 200 Leute gewalttätig dagegen vorgehen, dann haben dieser Staat und diese Demokratie ein Problem."

https://taz.de/Juergen-Trittin-ueber-Proteste-in-Biberach/!5992495/

Halcyon , 5 months ago

Office work of the future: The Atomic Secretary

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/a4eeaf14-cfd8-428f-8aa5-00f1cd2e16e0.jpeg

I first asked the AI how people it the 1950s might have imagined office work in the future. It came up with a short love story of a typical day at the International Space Agency, where John Smith worked as a senior engineer. He had just finished his morning coffee and was ready to start his project: designing a new rocket engine for the next lunar mission. He works with his lovely secretary, Alice. She is an atomic-powered robot with a feminine voice and a pleasant face, but her body is made of metal and wires.

Then I prompted to generate a picture based on the story.

Prompt: A picture of John working with Alice, his atomic-powered robot secretary, at his sleek metal console desk in the office of the International Space Agency. Alice has a metal and wire body, but a pleasant face. There are some plans of a rocket and a rocket engine on the screen and on the desk. The picture has a retro-futuristic style, like a movie poster from the 1950s.

Halcyon , 5 months ago

Just to be clear, in case anyone thinks that's an impressive height: it's the same if a smartphone falls from 50 meters or 5000 meters.

Someone calculated it here: Terminal velocity is about 17.5 m/s or 39.15 mph. The phone reaches that speed in 1.8 seconds after falling 15.6 metres.

So the height is quite irrelevant. The phone landed in soft grass so it's not surprising that it's undamaged. And the brand of that phone is irrelevant too. Every phone would survive that.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-terminal-velocity-of-a-falling-iPhone?top_ans=40231160

Halcyon , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Phones do not fall very fast because they tumble in the air. And this phone landed on grass.