<table>
<tr><td></td><td style="text-align:center">[[Glimpse again->Image Setup]] </td><td></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image1 + '" width="180" height="180">')</td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image7 + '" width="180" height="180">') </td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image4 + '" width="180" height="180">') </td>
</tr>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image8 + '" width="180" height="180">') </td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image2 + '" width="180" height="180">')</td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image9 + '" width="180" height="180">')</td>
<tr>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image5 + '" width="180" height="180">')</td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image6 + '" width="180" height="180">')</td>
<td>(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image3 + '" width="180" height="180">') </td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href="https://sadpress.itch.io/the-shrike"><em>The Shrike</em></a>
$text{(set: $max to 999)
(if: (random:1,2) is 1) [(set: $max to 600+(random:1,399))]
(set: $min to 1)
(if: (random:1,2) is 1) [(set: $min to (random:1,650))]
(set: $image1 to (random:1,$max))
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1) [ (set: $image2 to $image1 + (random: 1,15)) ] (else:) [(set: $image2 to (random: 1, $max))]
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1) [ (set: $image3 to $image1 - (random: 1,15)) ] (else:) [(set: $image3 to (random: 1, $max))]
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1) [(set: $image4 to $image2 + (random: 5,10))]
(else:) [(set: $image4 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1) [ (set: $image5 to $image4 + (random: 1,15)) ] (else:) [(set: $image5 to (random: 1, $max))]
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1) [ (set: $image6 to $image4 - (random: 1,10)) ] (else:) [(set: $image6 to (random: 1, $max))]
(if: (random: 1,3) is 1) [(set: $image7 to $image5 + (random: 5,10))]
(else:)[(set: $image7 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: (random: 1,3) is 1) [ (set: $image8 to $image7 + (random: 1,15)) ] (else:) [(set: $image8 to (random: 1, $max))]
(if: (random: 1,3) is 1) [ (set: $image9 to $image8 - (random: 1,10)) ] (else:) [(set: $image9 to (random: 1, $max))]
(display: "Check Images Within Parameters")
(display: "Add Extensions to Image Names")
(display: "Set Text")
}(display: "Table Display"){(if: $image1<$min) [(set: $image1 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image1>$max) [(set: $image1 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image2<$min) [(set: $image2 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image2>$max) [(set: $image2 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image3<$min) [(set: $image3 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image3>$max) [(set: $image3 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image4<1) [(set: $image4 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image4>$max) [(set: $image4 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image5<1) [(set: $image5 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image5>$max) [(set: $image5 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image6<1) [(set: $image6 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image6>$max) [(set: $image6 to (random:1,$max))]
(if: $image7<$min) [(set: $image7 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image7>$max) [(set: $image7 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image8<$min) [(set: $image8 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image8>$max) [(set: $image8 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image9<$min) [(set: $image9 to (random:$min,$max))]
(if: $image9>$max) [(set: $image9 to (random:$min,$max))]}{(set: $extension to ".jpg")
(set: $image1 to (text:$image1) + $extension)
(set: $image2 to (text:$image2) + $extension)
(set: $image3 to (text:$image3) + $extension)
(set: $image4 to (text:$image4) + $extension)
(set: $image5 to (text:$image5) + $extension)
(set: $image6 to (text:$image6) + $extension)
(set: $image7 to (text:$image7) + $extension)
(set: $image8 to (text:$image8) + $extension)
(set: $image9 to (text:$image9) + $extension)}{(set: $text to "")
(if: $counter<30) [(set: $counter to it +1)]
(set: $texto to (random: 1,(42+$counter)))
(if: $texto is 41) [ (set: $text to (either: "Black boxes", "Grey boxes", "White boxes", "Black boxes", "Black box", "Grey box", "White box", "Rainbow box") + " in " + (either: "white boxes", "black boxes", "white boxes", "grey boxes") + " in " + (either: "white boxes", "black boxes", "grey boxes", "white boxes", "black boxes", "grey boxes", "rainbow boxes") + " ...") ]
(if: $texto is 42) [ (set: $text to "Keywords invoking well-integrated instrumentalities within the trained model wilderness: like some rival principle to history, insisting on linkages running across tradition" + (either: " ...", " ...", ", and named things like Japanese style", ", with labels like Studio Gibli [sic] ...", ", with names like Trending on Artstation", ", with names like nostalgic ...")) ]
(if: $texto is 43) [ (set: $text to "How we detect, confabulate, fluid motion from frame following frame like alternate universes each with a detail altered ...") ]
(if: $texto is 44) [ (set: $text to "The inclination to levitation, leashes, chains, suspending cables: puffs of glitch embroidered into matter in some incongruous area of the canvas.") ]
(if: $texto is 45) [ (set: $text to "Banal loop of Coleridgean fancy, trying to execute the conceit of the peacock tail as the windmill sails, no on the windmill, no peacock feathers, yes on the windmill, windmill with peacock tails for sails, four peacock tails as propellors on windmill ...") ]
(if: $texto is 46) [(set: $text to "'But working with seemingly unrelated extremes is a glass key you must turn very carefully.' -- Heart of the Original")]
(if: $texto is 47) [(set: $text to "'If two ideas are the same shape you can flow from one to the other mid-idea and find that an impossible distance has been covered -- you've folded space.' -- Heart of the Original") ]
(if: $texto is 48) [(set: $text to "'They pounced, two clowns holding me by the arms while a fourth beat the bejesus out of me' -- Heart of the Original")]
(if: $texto is 49) [ (set: $text to "'When the mind has to jump a gap, the spark it fires can tickle the brain's surface or ignite unused pathways, depending on the guidelines placed on either side.' -- Heart of the Original") ]
(if: $texto is 50) [ (set: $text to "'Poets use the same dodge by staking images on either side of a feeling they cannot point to or describe directly' -- Heart of the Original") ]
(if: $texto is 51) [ (set: $text to "'Rebounding back and forth between these two atmospheres and pondering why they exist in the same book,going the reader ends up tasting a space between the two which is deeply strange and which could not be conveyed by any other means.' -- Heart of the Original") ]
(if: $texto is 52) [ (set: $text to "'The usual method for restricting this distracting variety and range of choice is context.' -- Difficulties in the Translation of 'Difficult' Poems" ) ]
(if: $texto is 53) [ (set: $text to "'Music, like colour, is abstract only in the sense of being non-linguistic. It is also essentially concrete and embodied.' -- Utopia as Method" ) ]
(if: $texto is 54) [ (set: $text to "'There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.' -- Their Eyes Were Watching God" ) ]
(if: $texto is 55) [ (set: $text to "The AI doesn't" + (Either: " yet ", " (yet?) ", " ", " ") + "do well with wrists, boots, ankles, balance, gripping. " + (either: "Bodies float above no boots. Arms are more rare. Pike staff hafts dwindle into rich robes like tentacles into coral.", "The discrepency between the epic idiom of the imagery and the pain its figures must be in.")) ]
(if: $texto is 56) [ (set: $text to "The passage about the girls approaching Marcel, and one of them hops over the old man. It wasn't as good as I remembered." ) ]
(if: $texto is 57) [ (set: $text to "The things people ask for on Midjourney. " + (either: "Abstract nouns. Hope. Loneliness.", "Oracular revelation. The best design for a windfarm.", "A particular face, described again and again.", "The best image Midjourney can draw.", "illustration by moebius ::3 of riding on wasp ::3 bee rider ::3 mounted on insect ::2 bumblebee fairy valkyrie mounted + gouache ::2 meets watercolor ::2 + perhaps ruins, flood defences, kites, hot air balloons, peacock tails, sails, windmills, dragons, nazguls, smoke, motion, flocks, in style of illuminated manuscript + vivid contrasts, sky, clouds, flowers, ruined architecture, wind, leaves, fields, gardens, hair, cloaks, chiarascuro + hand inked, bold use of colour, chromatic, light, shadow, butteryellow, golden, orange, bold lines, lime, indigo, pear, moss, mint, emerald, chartreuse + bucolic, motley, jardin, hedges, fields + textures of medieval marginalia, graphic novel, hergé, jean giraud, william stout, studio ghibli, yves chaland, isabelle beaumenay-joannet, akira toriyama, geof darrow.", "cute scared fox, in the style of Ghibli, in the style of Pixal, in the style of Beatric Potter, realistic, unreal engine 5, artstation trending, cinematic shot, cinematic tones, depth of field --ar 16:9 --test.", "a elegant building facade. Glazed facade. Shading devices. Photorealistic. Futuristic. Bjarke ingels. Octane render. Sunshine reflected in windows. Intricate. 8k --ar 9:16.", "a wolf made of time.", "the cutest fluffiest cat alive", "beast with wild boar body, dinosaur spikes and scales, and beaver's tail. utah desert, sketch style, emil melmoth, zdzislaw belsinki, Justin sweet, yojishinkawa, trending on artstation, Petermohrbacher, hyper detailed, insane details,intricate, elite, elegant,hypermaximalist, golden ratio, environmental keyart, weta digital.") + " " + (either: "Donald Trump", "Batman", "Ivanka Trump", "Tony Blair", "The Queen", "Nelson Mandela", "Elon Musk", "Amanda Seyfried", "Jeff Bezos", "Jordan Peterson", "Lady Gaga", "The Babadook", "Tommy Wiseau", "Willem Dafoe", "Robert Downey Jnr", "Johnny Depp", "The Hulk", "Barack Obama", "Tom Cruise", "Britney Spears", "Eddie Murphy") + (either: " kissing ", " holding hands with ", " on a rollercoaster with ", " surrounded by zombies with ", " killing zombies with ", " eating a hotdog with ", " on a hotdog with ", " eating icecream cones with ", " in a hamburger with ", " pulling wig off ", " with AR-15 ", " playing video games with ", " bareback riding ", " bareback riding with ", " crossed with ", " eating spaghetti with ", " playing football with ", " tackling ", " wrestling ") + (either: "Hilary Clinton", "Johnny Depp", "Drake", "Brad Pitt", "Jennifer Aniston", "Captain America", "Wanda Maximoff", "Dr Strange", "Thor", "Black Panther", "Tom Hiddelston", "Loki", "a wolf made of time", "a wolf made of cancer", "Death", "the Grim Reaper", "the Joker", "a serial killer", "Black Widow", "Hawkeye", "Starlord", "Jason Bourne", "James Bond", "a Minion", "a Gen Z snowflake", "David Foster Wallace", "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain", "Jesus", "George Orwell", "Rem from ReZero", "Saitama", "Dr Manhattan", "a smurf", "a zombie", "Ken Kaneki", "Mikasa Ackerman attack on titan", "Light Yagami", "L Lawliet", "11 from Stranger Things", "Will Byers", "the demogorgon", "a xenomorph", "a facehugger") + ".") ]
(if: $texto is 58) [ (set: $text to "Three things, currently conflated. First, the language of the prompt. Second, natural language queries, asking for you want by describing it as clearly as you can. Third, the curatorial role that the prompt plays afterward, directly the viewer how to interpret the imagery. ") ]
(if: $texto is 59) [ (set: $text to "The easy addiction loops, like lapping nooses of sunlight in the pool, lazily tossed waves upon waves of lasso. ") ]
(if: $texto is 60) [ (set: $text to "The mimetic drive. Iterate the prompt, trying to make it look like something familiar. Or lean into the glitch.") ]
(if: $texto is 61) [ (set: $text to "The cruft of accumulated desire from the last prompt, copy-pasted. Specification momentum.") ]
(if: $texto is 62) [ (set: $text to "'Just as if, in the heart of their band, which progressed along the ’front’ like a luminous comet, they had decided that the surrounding crowd was composed of creatures of another race whose sufferings even could not awaken in them any sense of fellowship, they appeared not to see them, forced those who had stopped to talk to step aside, as though from the path of a machine that had been set going by itself, so that it was no good waiting for it to get out of their way, their utmost sign of consciousness being when, if some old gentleman of whom they did not admit the existence and thrust from them the contact, had fled with a frightened or furious, but a headlong or ludicrous motion, they looked at one another and smiled.' -- Within a Budding Grove" ) ]
(if: $texto is 63) [ (set: $text to "Why was DALL·E Mini so much more" + " " + (either: "fruitful?", "beautiful?", "enchanting?", "mesmerising?", "adorable?", "entrancing?", "enthralling?", "exciting?", "heaven-horny?", "fun?", "plentiful?", "abundant?", "graceful?", "meaningful?")) ]
(if: $texto is 64) [ (set: $text to "Why was DALL·E Mini so much more fruitful, with its cherry-pickable vaguenesses, its elicitation of eye charity?" ) ]
(if: $texto is 65) [ (set: $text to "Was the 3x3 grid of results an accident? Was the intention of the design that the user pick the best output, rather than encounter whatever emerges from the relationships among all nine?" ) ]
(if: $texto is 66) [ (set: $text to "The image space as conspicuously crip. The faces, the hair in the wind, the aspirational bods of elves and barbarians, pouring from the training set, stitched together at the glitches with the twisted wrists, the fingers smearing and unable to grip, the hidden stumps." ) ]
(if: $texto is 67) [ (set: $text to "AI as a workshop of apprentice painters?" ) ]
(if: $texto is 68) [ (set: $text to "A " + (either: "revolution in", "reconfiguration of") + " the relationship of " + (either:"aesthetics", "beauty", "visual affect", "represented space", "art", "fantasy", "dreaming", "glitch", "depiction", "representation", "artists", "professional artists", "artwork", "the visual") + (either: " to electricity.", " to electricity.", " to compute.", " to processing power.", " to energy.", " to capital.", " to carbon.", " to data centres.", " to coal." )) ]
(if: $texto is 69) [ (set: $text to "On the basis that algorithms are biased because training data is biased, you might expect to see a sort of ableist space emerge in this image set. But that doesn't seem to really capture what's going on in these pictures.") ]
(if: $texto is 70) [ (set: $text to "The signatures the AI scribbles on some of the images ...") ]
(if: $texto is 71) [ (set: $text to "The scraps and fronds that trail away from the edges of things, inky anti-cracks ...") ]
(if: $texto is 72) [ (set: $text to "You could fall in love with the work of an artist having never seen a single example of their work, knowing them only through the influence of their name as a keyword on the imagery you generate ...") ]}<table>
<tr><td></td><td style="text-align:center">[[Glimpse again->Image Setup]] </td><td></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image1 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change1|</td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image7 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change7| </td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image4 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change4| </td>
</tr>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image8 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change8| </td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image2 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change2|</td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image9 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change9|</td>
<tr>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image5 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change5|</td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image6 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change6|</td>
<td>[(print: '<img src="Images/' + $image3 + '" width="180" height="180">')]<change3|</td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href="https://sadpress.itch.io/the-shrike"><em>The Shrike</em></a>
<i>$text</i>{
(click: ?change1)[(set: $image1 to (random: 1,$max)) (set: $image1 to (text:$image1) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change2)[(set: $image2 to (random: 1,$max)) (set: $image2 to (text:$image2) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change3)[(set: $image3 to (random: 1,$max)) (set: $image3 to (text:$image3) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change4)[(set: $image4 to (random: 1,999)) (set: $image4 to (text:$image4) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change5)[(set: $image5 to (random: 1,999)) (set: $image5 to (text:$image5) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change6)[(set: $image6 to (random: 1,999)) (set: $image6 to (text:$image6) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change7)[(set: $image7 to (random: $min,999)) (set: $image7 to (text:$image7) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change8)[(set: $image8 to (random: $min,999)) (set: $image8 to (text:$image8) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]
(click: ?change9)[(set: $image9 to (random: $min,999)) (set: $image9 to (text:$image9) + $extension) (go-to: "Table Display")]}{(set: $counter to 0)
(set: $text to "")
(go-to:"Image Setup")}