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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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This is beautiful, and a good example of art that generative AI will never be able to replicate.

What makes you say this? Even if not in totality, I could well imagine that an AI painter might be very well suited to being a copilot for this type of project.

Think dall-e image extender + style transfer + pop culture knowledge of these characters + some human seeded descriptions of the scenes.

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

#33

Made by a Russian who grew up in the USSR? Reasoning: https://floor796.com/data/misc/kvass.jpg https://floor796.com/data/misc/kin-dza-dza.mp4 Too obscure.

Click "about" :) It is by a Russian guy with a link to how he makes it, in Russian

Nice, my intuition was correct :)

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you read it so literally? It's the artist expressing their intention that the work is unfinished and being added to by others than the original artist themself "0x00 says, that it took 3 years to make the project look like it looks now. 1 year was spent on development and 2 years to create the first 8 bays. Now though, that everyone can add any bay and doesn't have to deal with programming, the author hopes th…

Because I, and probably most, believe from the title that you can pan infinitely in any direction, but it's not the case at all. Remove "ever expanding" and it looks a lot of its appeal. I wouldn't click without it. It's clickbait.

You're getting downvoted because it seems "probably most" don't agree with you :-)

Ever-expanding does not mean infinitely scrolling.

This is a work of art. Most works of art tend to be published in a "finished" state, where it will no longer be edited or expanded. The creator has appropriately signified that its current state is not its final state, and it will continue to expand.

Thus, it is a work of art that is "ever-expanding" :-)

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

#37

This "ever expanding" was misleading the first time it got posted and it still is today. Manually adding a tile once in a while doesn't make it ever expanding, or otherwise literally every website could be qualified of "ever expanding".

Adding a tile once in a while literally does make it ever expanding.

Most other web sites are ever growing collections of things, not an ever growing thing.

The description is neither misleading nor even non-sequiter. It's applicable and one of the primary notable properties.

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

#39

This "ever expanding" was misleading the first time it got posted and it still is today. Manually adding a tile once in a while doesn't make it ever expanding, or otherwise literally every website could be qualified of "ever expanding".

It was misleading to me too, at first, given the current AI hypetrend, but "ever expanding" still makes sense here, and I prefer this more manual sense of "ever expanding" - the term doesn't deserve to be poisoned by AI hype.

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Really cool. Reminds me of Goon Tower from many years ago, where the levels were made by various different members of the SomethingAwful forums: http://web.archive.org/web/20130416221448/http://www.goontow...

We did a version of this in the deviantArt forums except it was longcat instead of a tower. Somewhere I have the composite image which was a LOT of pixels tall by about 128 pixels wide.

There were many such projects way back when. I remember participating in the emoticon tower: https://www.deviantart.com/leoleonardo/art/The-Re-opened-Tow...
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