As a design enthusiast, I have had the privilege of exploring various design technologies during my tenure at Parsons. Below are some of the projects I have undertaken that have helped sharpen my design skills, passion and dedication towards my creative practice.
"The Waves" exploration using GPT-3 and DALLE
"The Waves" by Virgina Wolf
The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually. As they neared the shore each bar rose, heaped itself, broke and swept a thin veil of white water across the sand. The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously. Gradually the dark bar on the horizon became clear as if the sediment in an old wine-bottle had sunk and left the glass green. Behind it, too, the sky cleared as if the white sediment there had sunk, or as if the arm of a woman couched beneath the horizon had raised a lamp and flat bars of white, green and yellow spread across the sky like the blades of a fan. Then she raised her lamp higher and the air seemed to become fibrous and to tear away from the green surface flickering and flaming in red and yellow fibres like the smoky fire that roars from a bonfire. Gradually the fibres of the burning bonfire were fused into one haze, one incandescence which lifted the weight of the woollen grey sky on top of it and turned it to a million atoms of soft blue. The surface of the sea slowly became transparent and lay rippling and sparkling until the dark stripes were almost rubbed out. Slowly the arm that held the lamp raised it higher and then higher until a broad flame became visible; an arc of fire burnt on the rim of the horizon, and all round it the sea blazed gold. The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpened the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a blue finger-print of shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.
I started with generating sentences from the most commonly used words in poem "The Wave".
I took the most common word used in the poem and isolated them to have GPT-3 create a sentence out of them.
Some generated results:
"The sky, sea, and horizon became one white like gradually darkening another surface. Green cloth lay higher in the sun."
"Gradually, the sky turned from a bright blue to a deep navy, the sun slowly sinking below the horizon. Another surface, this time a deep green, began to raise from the horizon, gradually growing taller. A lamp, slightly brighter than the sun, appeared on top of the green surface. Cloth began to slowly lay across the surface, until the entire thing was hidden by the fabric."
"The sky, the sea and the horizon blended into one white, while another surface gradually rose, green and brighter, as the sun slightly sunk. A bar crossed the horizon, and a yellow fan fibres lay beneath it."
AI Generated images using such sentence through DALL-E
AI GeneraStyle Gan training: Freeform. Combining features from all the images it was fed.
Latent Walk Variation
BigGAN + CLIP + CMA-ES | VQGAN+CLIP : Generating video
Input: “A green light began to shine from a higher sun, and a bar across the horizon became visible”
VQGAN+CLIP
Input: “The sea gradually became darker, while the surface of the sun gradually became brighter. The horizon became white, like a cloth being laid out.”
