Degradation 🎨

Cathedral
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