Synthetic Dataset – Replay
Due to the results from previous posts, I thought I would try another approach: train the network by feeding it not the state at one moment in time, but concatenate multiple moments of time into a...
View ArticlePercept Diversity
As refining the MLP beyond what it already does seems no easy task, I thought I would move to the previous problem: To make sure that there is enough temporal diversity in the percepts for the...
View ArticlePercept Diversity – Videos
Following are some short videos that show some of the more interesting dreams generated by the system in the last test. They give a sense of the periodicity of some dreams and how dreams look with...
View ArticleStatic Dreams (again)
After trying to add a little bit of noise to the state of the inputs to the predictor, I noticed that the noise had no effect on the output. I thought there was an issue with my implementation of the...
View ArticleWatching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Some work-in-progress using the Dreaming Machine #3 system to generate imagery learned from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, tentatively titled Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey):
View ArticleWatching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey) (2)
Some more work in progress on Watching and Dreaming, this time at the correct aspect ratio:
View ArticlePhD Defence – Passed!
On September 9th, 2014 I successfully defended my PhD Dissertation, entitled A Machine That Dreams: An Artistic Enquiry Leading to Integrative Theory and Computational Artwork. PhD Defence Slides
View ArticlePrep for ISEA 2014 in Dubai
While I had attempted to get real-time transition into the Dreaming Machine #3 software, I had a last minute issue with an interaction between system updates and performance. Rendering each frame went...
View ArticleISEA 2014 in Dubai
Following are a few images I captured of the Dreaming Machine while uninstalling, and thus have quite limited variation. Night was artificially triggered by putting the lens cap on the camera. It was...
View ArticleDreaming Machine #3 Test with Tower View
This test only lasted a few hours, and the weather was really terrible (constant heavy rain); following are the results.
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