You don’t need a high Wisdom score or to be trained in Perception to notice the page image I’m using here is animated. You might need a level or two of Nerd to get these D&D references, though, and maybe that’s not your thing. That’s fine. I can code-switch with the best of them.
There is a purpose behind that image being animated. The image was created for my post about perception and subjective reality. Yes, I’m still prattling on about how brains “work.” No, I’ll not continue to dither about such topics here.
I liked where this ended up because it shows the base image, that which is, the thing that existed first. And from that core, there are different interpretations and lens through which it is viewed. Some are very similarto the original. Others look nothing like it, but there still evidence of the anchoring truth.
This page exists only to house the full progression of that animation, of which that feature image is but one small piece.
The base image is one of the mandalas that Erin colored. The rest were made using Stable Diffusion’s image-to-image generation. I think it’s fascinating to watch the fade and see how the core image was used to inform the AI-created one. Hence the fade from and back to Erin’s original each time.
Overall, I’m pleased with how the whole thing turned out.
Images of Perception Without Animation
If you want to see the 40 individual images without motion sickness, I think I have them all here and in the appropriate order, starting with Erin’s original mandala. The fade moves clickly, so I thought having the opportunity to look at individual images might of interest.
There were so many more good ones that didn’t get used that maybe I’ll make an album of pictures not selected. I probably made somewhere around over 3,000 images. Most of them too similar to each other or too dissimilar from the original to be worth showing them all, but I could easily pick another 40!