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FANTASIES
Research and Prototype in Collaboration with
Serrino Liu
Advised by
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
The classics of Fantasies is the modern evolution of a collection of chinese traditional mythological animals from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". It draws selected social and natural history information and cocreate with AI an imaginative life form of the animals in corresponding age.
KEYWORDS: Accuracy; Evolutionism; Historical data;Myth; Evolution; Current Creatures vs. Extinct vs. Mythological creatures;Education; Imagination; New Form of Collaboration; Human-machine Cocreation
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《山海经·大荒北经》中说："大荒之中，有山名曰北极柜。海水北注焉。有神九首，人面鸟身，名曰九凤"。
The "Mountain and Sea Classic - the Great Wilderness North Scriptures" says: "In the middle of the Great Wilderness, there is a mountain named Arctic cabinet. The sea water is injected in the north. There is a god with nine heads, human face and bird body, named the nine phoenixes".
《山海经‧南山经》︰“又东三百里，曰基山，其阳多玉，其阴多怪木。有兽焉，其状如羊，九尾四耳，其目在背，其名曰猼訑，佩之不畏。”
The "Mountain and Sea Classic - the Southern Mountain Scriptures" says: "And 300 miles to the east, it is called Ji Mountain, whose sun is full of jade and whose shade is full of strange wood. There is a beast that looks like a sheep, with nine tails and four ears, and its eyes are on its back, and its name is called the bó yí, and who wears it will be fearless."
《山海经·南山经》记载：“又东五百里，曰鹿吴之山，上无草木，多金石。泽更之水出焉，而南流注于滂水，水有兽焉，名曰蛊雕，其状如雕而有角，其音如婴儿之音，,是食人。”
The "Mountain and Sea Classic - the Southern Mountain Scriptures" says: "And 500 miles east, said the deer Wu of the mountain, no grass and trees, more gold and stone. Ze more water out of it, and the south flow of water injected in the pouring water, the water has a beast, named compulsion eagle, its shape like a carving and has a horn, its voice like a baby's voice, is eating people."
Influential Factors (PromptGeneration)
The influential factors contain both natural and human aspect that starts from end of the last ice age when humans started to first evolve. In total the experiment provides 7 list of factors that divide the time from 8500BC to 2020 according to the numbers of big events in human records.
Creature Evolution (Image Generation)
After generated the influential factors, the factors will be stored in the interactive application to be append to the basic description of the creature that the participant select.The text prompt of the seven stages is determined when the participate chose acreature to start with.
The following process example is createdunder the selection of “九鳳 [jiǔ fèng]”, the nine-headed bird.
OriginalText
“有神九首，人面鸟身，名曰九凤。”
DeepL Translation
“There is a god with nine heads, human face and bird body, namednine phoenixes”
Abstracted Original Prompt
“Nine-headed, phoenix, wings”
Sample Start Prompt in thefirst timeframe
“Nine-headed, phoenix, wings, flying, dynamicpose, melting ice, rising sea level, glacier receding"
// Unreal Engine
// Environment Art
// World Building
// Unreal Engine Blueprints
// OSC // Game Controller
// Unreal Engine
// Environment Art
// World Building
// AI/Machine Learning
//Cinema4d // generative art
// Environment Art
// Depth Camera
// Unreal Engine Blueprints
// audio-visual //uiux
// multi-user
// unreal engine blueprints
// Houdini // Cinema4d
// responsive Environment
// Cinema4d
// Interactive Experience
// Cinematic Ads
// Interactive
//Fabrication
// AI/Machine Learning
// Unity
// Generative Art
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// Hololens
// Interactive Exhibition
// Digital Fabrication
// TouchDesigner
// Interactives
// Arduino
// Acutaed material
// Fabrication
// Digital Sculpture
// Maya
// Animation
// World Building
// software // Python
// Unreal Engine Blueprints