Samuel's Blog

      For assignment two my group and I have chosen a short horror film to recreate the sounds using random everyday objects. My role is the Heart beat, banging my hand against a jug to create a fairly realistic sounding heart. we had lots of fun with this, it took us a little while to find the video we are going to use but I feel we have chosen a perfect video for us. I actually found myself enjoying this project quite a bit, it was nice being able to work along side such wonderful people. 

 AI converting images with prompts.  Though I have changed my plans for the poor image, I am still going to use this photo of my cat, Cali.      I'm planning to give the photo to the Grok AI system and asking it to manipulate the photo through prompts.      Beginning with this photo I was curious what would happen if I eventually gave the AI free will to do anything it wished to this photo with minimal guidance.  In these first few examples I prompted Grok to saturate the photo, I repeated this a number of times to see how far the AI was willing to go.      I was a little shocked to see how little it actually changed in the start, slowly having to get more and more descriptive with it to push it past what it was willing to do   You can see with these two I asked it to do the same thing twice, and they look nearly identical. this is what made me change my mindset and ask more specific prompts.      this once ...

Samuel Johnson     For our first project "the poor image" I have chosen to use a picture of my cat. This is the original photo.     Using this piece I am going to be retaking the photo from my computer screen. sending it over and compressing the image until it looks noticeably different. To further distort this image I will also be shrinking the image and screenshotting it.      Once the photo was compressed and shrunk, the photo begins to look aged. seeing the lines from the pixels. and the darkened, less saturated colors on the animal.     I feel changing the image and looking like this makes both the cat and photo look aged. which to me makes me think about what the cat could look like as of right now. More grey, less colors, and simply older.