Degradation 🎨

This began as precision.
One image, coaxed into being by a prompt. Then another. Then another.
Each time, the same instructions. But each time, more noise. More forgetting.
Degradation is what happens when we reverse the diffusion process of text-to-image generation. The image is born of noise, and returns to noise.
The result: a looping entropy. Birds that flock into a melting streak of abstraction. A piano that smears into a grid of noise. A cathedral made of feathers, or a feather made of cathedrals.
Noise to noise.
- Date: 2022
- Tools: Stable Diffusion, img2img looping pipeline
- Process: Recursive re-prompting with increasing noise
- Iterations: 120
- Artifacts: The crows have eyes