My work
This week, we are asked to create our own deep dream images or videos. I have three try for deep dreams.
The basic setting is:
Firstly, I try to use my own profile to create a deep dream image.
However, this is a PNG file, which is not available for the deep dream. I did not find out this rule so I tried another PNG image.
The second try is my wallpaper. At first, I concluded that deep dream cannot dream the white background(it is true), and it does not matter with the format of images. Therefore, I try another PNG image without white background.
Even if I got deep dream image, I could not animate it. That is the problem.
Therefore, I shifted my attention to JPG image. I uploaded a JPG image to collab.
I tried with different setting actually. But I forgot to change the output name, resulting in that the output video was overwritten times by times.
My research
My research is divided into three steps.
Step1:
Since my output video is only two seconds long, so I am really curious about what a long deep dream video looks like. I searched on YouTube and reached to a video.
This is a really long deep dream video. Compared to my video, this video moves more smoothly. At the same time, since the time is long enough, the deep dream style is keeping changing while our vision is keeping diving. That is really amazing. I was told by Aven that the author has a really strong hardware computer to processing this video. That is why they can generate this long-time, high-quality deep dream video. It is impossible for my computer to run this deep dream video–it might take a week or more.
Step2
The first video is a 2d version deep dream video. I am also curious about how deep dream looks like in 3d space. Hence, I found a VR deep dream video.
Actually it is really scary to watch this video. It reminds me of multidimensional spaces and nightmare. Compared to my work, this VR work, I guess, is nothing special actually. How the author made it is to edit the original deep dream video, setting it into a 360 file. Then the author edit this 360 file and put it into the VR headset.
Step3
This video is more like a video with a deep dream filter. The author apply deep dream programming into each frame of this video, then put all frame together to form this weird woods video. It is quite interesting to see how it makes a deep dream. Different from a normal deep dream video, it changes the texture of the video gradually, it is a process. Look closely, we can tell.
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