White Stapler
These Ethereal Feelings
[I am … inhuman, almost formed]
Real-time generated 3D AI brain models using a custom interactive application. Created from images generated from a machine learning model trained on coronal MRI scans, these 3D models describe the movement of a form across a neural network space. The resulting otherworldly forms are completely machine generated, but still feel organic enough to be accepted as “beings” or part of something previously alive. These “brains” bring human physicality to the idea of machine intelligence. If they could, how would these hypothetical brains think and feel? Would AI ever be able to fabricate their own version of a natural being? How much control would we as humans have over that process? This is an exploration of machine unpredictability and the human collaboration/oversight of their progress.
This custom application invites users to take part in generating 3D brains from AI images by allowing them some control over speed and seed position within latent space using their mouse.
[Process]
[5,000~ Coronal brain scan MRI images] —-> [Pytorch StyleGAN3 trained AI image model] —-> [Custom TouchDesigner real-time interactive latent-walking voxelization application] —-> [3D models of reconstructed brains from AI generated images, PLY/GLTF export]
[List of sources:]
Edlow, Brian L. et al. (2019), 7 Tesla MRI of the ex vivo human brain at 100 micron resolution, Scientific Data, Article-journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0254-8
Joosten, Robert, img2ply, robertjoosten/img2ply: Convert an image sequence to a PLY point cloud. (github.com)
White Stapler
Experimental digital artist, programmer, and designer working with new technologies. Dangerously obsessed with VR spaces and testing the fallout of context collapse with more than a hundred online identities