Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow DeepDream: Preserve the source's large composition and amplify related features at several scales to create recursion into depth
- Type
- Set in DeepDream's manner (Add type after processing, keeping it short, bold and simple enough not to fight the detail), and let Psychedelic's lettering (Lettering that warps like liquid) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in DeepDream's material (Choose layers in a trained vision model and iteratively increase their activation through gradient ascent); bring in exactly one thing from Psychedelic (Saturated color, waves, repeating pattern).
- Colour
- Build on #21134A, #2FD5C4, #F0C84B and admit one accent from #ff7a1a, #f4e929, #7732b9.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- DeepDream It is not a swirl filter or pasted dog faces. Preserve which layer and feature were amplified and how they bind to the source.
- Psychedelic Hostile to long text and critical controls. Reserve places for the eye to rest.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from DeepDream (technique, 2015–) and their accent from Psychedelic (style, 1960s–1970s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing DeepDream exists for: exhibits and critical images that make machine misrecognition immediately visible, or music video and cover imagery that keeps a source landscape beneath a multi-scale hallucination. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from DeepDream - Eyes and animal faces repeated across the frame - Swirling texture multiplying along source contours - Multi-scale repetition that reveals new figures when viewed closer - Saturated blue, yellow and violet rolling continuously Composition: Preserve the source's large composition and amplify related features at several scales to create recursion into depth. Type and lettering: Add type after processing, keeping it short, bold and simple enough not to fight the detail. ## Accent comes from Psychedelic, used sparingly - Swirling curves - Complementary colors - Melting letters - Kaleidoscope patterns Let one material quality come from it: Saturated color, waves, repeating pattern. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #F0C84B, carry the structure in #2FD5C4 and #21134A, and let a single accent come from #ff7a1a. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, futurity, exhilaration, rebellion. ## What goes wrong - DeepDream: It is not a swirl filter or pasted dog faces. Preserve which layer and feature were amplified and how they bind to the source. - Psychedelic: Hostile to long text and critical controls. Reserve places for the eye to rest. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- DeepDream 2015– / Technique / Digital Art
Google's visualization technique repeatedly amplifies features learned by an image-recognition network, making eyes, animals and towers emerge excessively from clouds, rocks and leaves until misrecognition becomes a recursive hallucinatory surface.
- Psychedelic 1960s–1970s / Style / Counterculture
Melts contour and color until reality itself starts to sway.
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