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This reminds me a bit of a project I am currently doing where I swap adjacent pixels in the last image of short video sequences until it resembles the first image:

https://www.instagram.com/marekgibney/reel/DILksFYNSkE/

ygritte · 20m ago

It looks like this could be used for some form of steganography. You need the right mirror form for decoding.

cornstalks · 6h ago

This reminds me of Stand-up Maths and Steve Mould creating a puzzle that has two solutions with two different images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5nElEbbnfU

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fudged71 · 6h ago

I love how many optical illusions have been revisited with new generative techniques

low_tech_punk · 49m ago

Are there other examples? Definitely curious to see more.

krick · 3h ago

Oh great. Now I suddenly feel the urge to acquire a physical oddly shaped lens or mirror.

ziofill · 2h ago

Don’t get me wrong, this is very neat. But why?

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echelon · 5h ago

Disney invited me to talk about my GenAI startup and research in front of a bunch of their execs across ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Streaming, etc. All of their folks were super nice and gracious to our small startup except for one.

Steve May basically scoffed at how little my small team could accomplish. Mind you we were using mocapped skeletal animation and object animation curves to fully steer video diffusion over a year and a half ago. Before image to video modalities. He picked apart our training and engineering and gloated that they could do better.

The incident is seared into my brain.

I can't help but think of Disney as the Empire and Pixar as the Death Star.

w_for_wumbo · 2h ago

If he was upset - it wasn't how little your team could accomplish. That would bring the feeling of admiration. It's most likely projection of their inability to deliver results.

oidar · 3h ago

> gloated that they could do better.

did they? Anything good come from that meeting?

spuz · 5h ago

So the classic Silicon Valley brain rape is actually real?

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