I decided it was time to start playing with some possible secondary uses for text2image outputs. While I probably find too many of the images beautiful and worthy of standing on their own, it’s my hope that they will also serve well as a raw material. I shall begin by utilizing a freeware application called SoundOfAnImage. As expected, most of the built in synthesized sounds are pretty cheesy, however it does have the amazing ability to export a midi file for use in any other program. This is something I shall begin to explore but to kick things off, I present, #20090218_005308599, #20090209_023015, #20090214_091343123, #20090422_190230977. I suppose it’s time to start digging into Steve Reich’s work…
+ Please listen with headphones to the full spectrum of frequencies produced…
I found this image last night while refreshing the website in search of the latest 15. Upon loading, a giant blue swatch stared me down, my eyes shifted to the caption, and the mysterious moment was broken with laughter. What funny things people decide to put into this system. Immediately my mind with its pattern establishing circuits went ‘WOW… tell me that is not a picture of an ocean?!’ - and it most certainly is. I imagine it as a sectional view, from the light colored surface on down to the dark depths of unchartered’ness.
This is a dangerous game to play. From my understanding of how the whole system works + why it works, there is no room for semantic translation in the images; it has to be shrugged off as a coincidence. Nevertheless, there is a long slew of examples which could argue that a link between textual subject and image exists, backed up by a larger selection of text2image users who express similar notions in their observations. This is where I could/would/should hand the key off to a social scientist and ask for their professional opinion on the matter. In the meantime, I will have fun engaging in what I shall dub a textual fetish [article on that to come soon], and enjoy the fascinating images this tool produces.
_REINFORCING THE POINT
Have a look at the b+w translation of alg_02 for the very same text:
So I finally got over my selfish ways and decided to share the latest text2image algorithm with the public. Finishing the new design, optimizing the code, and implementing functionality which will help me understand the usage of this tool, has kept me pretty busy up until this point. It’s now, most definiately, time to take my text beyond an outline phase, start writing my reflections in detail, while the thoughts [such as hoarding the new developments to myself] are still fresh in my mind.
_WHAT ABOUT VERSION 2.1?
Hey, 2.0 JUST came out! …Yeah yeah.. still some little things to do. I would like to add an instant rating system, so that people could flag images they found to be aesthetically pleasing, thus increasing the speed at which I can wade through the database, find the best [subjective to me] images, and figure out just why they turned out the way they did…
