Ready to see the impossible? Just look.

[UnseenParticipant]

As high-res as 2D images may be, they still look flat, right. Well, that’s the way it was. Using AI, it’s now possible to render 2D images with such convincing simulated depth, that your TV or computer screen look like a window into a diorama. Don’t believe me? Run this video. The AiBient Youtube channel with several dozen videos demonstrating this startling technology, each about 12 hours long, like this one.

[unapologeticParticipant]

OH WOW.

I started it thinking ’12 hours, are you kidding?’ But after just 2 minutes, I want this as my screen saver or wallpaper, full time.

Unfortunately after two minutes my computer is complaining about CPU usage.

Thank you Unseen!

• This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by  unapologetic.
• This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by  unapologetic.

[UnseenParticipant]

unapologetic wrote:

OH WOW. I started it thinking ’12 hours, are you kidding?’ But after just 2 minutes, I want this as my screen saver or wallpaper, full time. Unfortunately after two minutes my computer is complaining about CPU usage. Thank you Unseen!

Suggestion: If you can, download it and edit out of it a manageably long chunk.

[unapologeticParticipant]

Here’s another: ‘Euphoric Equations’. Like a 3D Mandelbrot.  (not as trippy as ‘brickworld’, but still nice)

Then I found a similar photo from real life:  

 

[UnseenParticipant]

There are tons of trippy computer-generated “deep dives” into mind-bending fractal worlds. They use the rules of perspective to simulate depth in 2D but the example in the top post does something I can’t identify to go beyond those rules, understood and used by painters in the Renaissance until today, to depict objects in space accurately. I will say this: it has something to do with the motion, because if you freeze the action, the sense of looking through the screen into a 3D world stops and the image becomes 2D again.

Anyway, here’s a gorgeous use of fractals combined with computer-generated imagery to produce a weird but wonderful constantly morphing world full of mushrooms, flowers, mountains, trees, and occasionally horses and beautiful women.

 

[UnseenParticipant]

Here’s another one exhibiting the hyper 3D effect that also goes flat when you pause it.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

It seems to be generating 3-d landscapes that are rotated, and new material is AI-generated to fill the gap of what’s coming round the corner.

[UnseenParticipant]

Simon Paynton wrote:

It seems to be generating 3-d landscapes that are rotated, and new material is AI-generated to fill the gap of what’s coming round the corner.

I noticed that, but it still doesn’t explain the hyper 3D effect.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

The technology that seems to render 2D as 3D is called ‘Stereoscopy’.  Two offset images are presented to us, one to each eye, in the same way that we normally perceive depth. The Unreal Engine is amazing. I help architects and engineers use it, or Enscape, to render 3d buildings from Revit models.

 

 

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Unseen wrote:

it still doesn’t explain the hyper 3D effect.

It has realistic movement and changes of perspective.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

The Unreal Engine is amazing.

That’s impressive.

[_Robert_Participant]

Having a pair of eyes capable of stereopsis gives us better depth perception and camo-breaking abilities. I suspect these 2-dimensional images take advantage of that.

[UnseenParticipant]

_Robert_ wrote:

camo-breaking abilities

Camouflage?

[_Robert_Participant]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

camo-breaking abilities

Camouflage?

Yeah. That’s why those “find the thing” puzzles are so fun.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Duck or rabbit…?

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