[Writing] AND ((((Sampling)))) (2) : LIAR
2024
Starting with a famous Gestalt optical illusion, the final image is made of the accumulation of all the automated prompts that were used to make this image. Through the process, I'm exploring recursive prompting, ContolNet filters and denoising samplers - Stable Diffusion / Automatic 1111.
Débutant avec une fameuse illusion d’optique de la Gestalt, l’image finale est réalisée à partir de l'accumulation de tous les prompts automatisés qui ont été mobilisés pour créer cette image. Au cours du processus, j’explore l’accumulation récursive de prompts, les filtres ContolNet et les algorithmes de débruitage sur Stable Diffusion / Automatic 1111.
Recursive process:
1. I started with a classic Gestalt optical illusion that plays on the ambiguity between the detection of the word “Liar”, in cursive, and that of a face – thus cultivating a sense of perceptive tension, from the outset.
2. I tried to minimize as much as I could my involvement in a desired input content, by allowing an algorithm to dynamically adjusts the required number of iterative denoising steps. This choice made the generation process relatively slow, while not being able to know in advance when an image will be outputted.
3. In parallel, I delegated to another algorithm the task of generating prompts at each stage. My influence then shifted to the intuitive weighting of certain sections of the prompt through a syntax the model can process: the parentheses increasing the weighting and the brackets decreasing it.
4. Each output image is then superimposed on the previous ones and the resulting layering becomes the input from which the algorithm generates a new prompt. As we can see, the initial optical illusion ended up in an almost shapeless stratification.
5. Likewise with the prompts: each textual input is added to the previous one to form an increasingly heavy and incomprehensible one.
6. The whole work was finally animated by frame interpolations to show how, the more the work amplifies, the more the recognizable figure blends into a surface made of tokens and visual patterns that are, not only unreadable to me, but also independent of strict auctorial authority on my part.