#turing pattern

[barksbog]

Barks Quick "Turing patterns in CSP" tutorial

you need some pixels to start with, either just grab the spray bottle tool or go to Filter>Render>Perlin Noise

Filter> Gausian Blur> value: 6

Filter> Sharpen> unsharp mask> Radius: 22, Strenght: 255, Threshold: 0

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you need to repeat step 2+3 over and over. to make that easier you can go to:

Auto Action> create new auto action set

hit record in the bottom left of the auto action window

perform step 2+3

stop recording

right click the actions in the set and duplicate them

make sure they are sorted correctly and hit play a few times

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before you color your pattern or do anything with it go to

Edit> tonal correction> binarization

to get rid of any odd colored pixels

[tickfleato]

how to make cool blobby turing patterns in photoshop

i'll preface with i learned the basic loop from skimming a tutorial on youtube, but as someone who prefers written tutorials i'm sure many would appreciate one! also, the second part of this is some of the visual effects i figured out on my own using blending modes and stuff.

i'm using photoshop CS4 on a mac so some buttons and stuff might be in different places on windows and newer photoshop versions but all the actions are the same. my canvas is 1000x1000 pixels.

UPDATES (i'm hoping these'll show up whenever you open the readmore?)

it's possible to do something similar in krita using this plugin, made by the love @arcaedex

it's also possible to do this in photopea, a free browser alternative to photoshop! the results are pretty much identical.

FIRST off you wanna get or make a black and white image of some kind. it has to be one layer. can be noise, a photo, a bunch of lines, whatever. here's mine, just some quick airbrush lines:

now find the actions tab. idk what it looks like in newer versions of photoshop but you probably won't need to dig!

hit the little page thingy to make a new pattern. once you hit 'record', it'll record everything you do. the little square 'stop' icon will end it.

now you want to do a high pass filter. you can mess around with the radius to change the size of your squiggles, but the tutorial had it set to 6. experiment!

now add the 'threshold' adjustment layer. i use the adjustments tab but i think there's also a dropdown menu somewhere. keep it at the default, 128. merge it down. (control or command + E or you can right click it like some kind of weirdo)

and finally, the gaussian blur! the radius of this affects the shape and size of your squiggles as well. i like to keep it around 4.5 but you can mess around with that too.

after that, hit 'stop' on the action you're recording, and then repeat it a bunch of times using the 'play' button, until you have something you like, like this:

WOW!! that was fun!! and only a little tedious thanks to the power of macros. anyway, here's some fun layer blending stuff i like to do. it's with a different pattern cause i made this bit first.

anyway, using a black and white gradient (or a grey base that you do black and white airbrush on), make a layer with the vivid light. this will make the blobs look thicker or thinner.

then, for cool colors, do a gradient map adjustment layer over that:

and finally, my best friend, the overlay layer. just using a gradient here bc i'm lazy, but feel free to experiment with brushes, colors, and blending modes!

NOW GO. MAKE COOL SHIT WITH THE POWER OF MATH. AND SEND IT TO ME

also these are not hard and fast rules PLEASE mess around with them to see what kind of weird shit you can make. here's a gif. as you can see i added some random airblush blobs in the middle of it, for fun.

[mdev0]

EPILEPSY WARNING BELOW THE BAR. EDIT: I HAVE LEARNED HOW TUMBLR WORKS

[hiddenstashart]

Let’s talk about Turing patterns!

Turing patterns are a concept introduced by mathematician Alan Turing, and he describes how patterns - shown here as stripes and splotches or spots on my frog stickers - occur naturally during morphogenesis (the process that causes tissue to form shape by controlling the spatial distribution of cells during early development).

In an otherwise stable and asymmetrical state of growth, the interaction of the chemicals controlling that growth autonomously result in the formation of pigmented markings on animals and plants.

And once you start to look, you’ll find Turing-style reaction-diffusion systems can be seen in all sorts of places:

Wind ripples in sand caused by the interplay of accumulation and degradation.

The nanoscale formation of atomically thin layers of bismuth crystals.

The uneven distribution of matter in galactic discs.

The feedbacks involved in replication, competition and predation may even set up organized patterns in animal communities.

Turing patterns are everywhere.

[bloofbloofbloof]

If you want some fish accurate™️lore, I use reaction diffusion patterns. I think you can make them in most art programs.

Greatest enemy: The seal

[reblogs-the-art]

"Turing's Cake (and other wrinkly math)"

[dolcegalante]

Black and White Luxury Geometric Pattern Art Board Print

[tutuandscoot]

VM talking about turnout

That’s it. That’s the post

[cryptidm0ths]

I got the first panel of the himeru jacket kinda done

[deadlydelicious]

You know how at a certain point interacting with people becomes exhausting

have you ever noticed how some people are just...MORE people than others.

Like at the ed of a long day, interacting with my Dad is fine, he usually just wants to chill out. My Mum is like medium interaction, sometimes too much, but ok if I use the mental energy boost of walking i the door

but my aunt and uncle are staying with us right now and their presence is fucking EXHAUSTING. like no, don't pepper me with questions about my commute at 8:00 in the morning as i'm trying to walk out the door with all my stuff, don't make snide comments about me 'sleeping downstairs' because me making my lunch at 1am woke you up. this is my house?! my home?! why should i be the one having to bend and twist for you? you're the ones who decided to stay here so you won't have to pay for s hotel, any discomfort is your own fucking fault. jesus you're the guest here not me

but god forbid i put up a boundary, then its being rude. totally fine if they trample all over mine though

[theluckiestrose]

The reason i know AI is a passing fad and not a genuine threat is because its being pushed by the same goobers who were pushing things like crypto and the metaverse and nfts.

Its not a waste of energy to get mad about it. Make sure the companies adopting its worse iterations know they're fucking up. Thats part of how NFTs lost their luster. Just remember how often techbros bandwagon on the newest, dumbest, shiniest thing and dont panic.

[mercuriobebop]

Experimenting with this, I tried to find a "faster" way to do it (playing with different values, putting the layer in monochrome from the start, etc.), ended up with a "generic microscopical image".

If you people need placeholders like this and have no time or resouces to go through stock images, the steps were the same with a middle tweak:

Filter>Render>Perlin Noise

->->->-> Filter> Gausian Blur> value: ≥ 120

Filter> Sharpen> unsharp mask> Radius: 22, Strenght: 255, Threshold: 0

Filter> Gausian Blur> value: 6

Filter> Sharpen> unsharp mask> Radius: 22, Strenght: 255, Threshold: 0

repeat 4+5 to your heart's content. The more times, the more "low res" the image will look

Barks Quick "Turing patterns in CSP" tutorial

you need some pixels to start with, either just grab the spray bottle tool or go to Filter>Render>Perlin Noise

Filter> Gausian Blur> value: 6

Filter> Sharpen> unsharp mask> Radius: 22, Strenght: 255, Threshold: 0

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you need to repeat step 2+3 over and over. to make that easier you can go to:

Auto Action> create new auto action set

hit record in the bottom left of the auto action window

perform step 2+3

stop recording

right click the actions in the set and duplicate them

make sure they are sorted correctly and hit play a few times

-----

before you color your pattern or do anything with it go to

Edit> tonal correction> binarization

to get rid of any odd colored pixels

[tickfleato]

back at it again with the turing patterns

[mhaccunoval]

yo fuck this dude (this dude is scarus frenatus)

[firespirited]

My concern is not just folks misunderstanding the machines but people have a very very limited understanding of what intelligence is and how it works.

It's something that comes up in all sorts of areas: disability, art, environmental concerns, school, social media.

People think of intelligence as a thing you either have or don't when there are all sorts of intelligences and awareness of self and of others, forms of memory, forms of expression.

The big AI snake oil pitch is an ideal time for people to learn about their different intelligences and biases so they not only know more about the 'machine learning' they're being sold but more about themselves and other forms of intelligence that are hidden or have been lied about

Are addicts stupid or are they numbing what they know? Who's smarter the ceo or the mechanic or the cashier? Are chickens intelligent, are mushrooms? Why is witness testimony both fallible and credible evidence? Why can't you remember all the details of one of your favourite films? What is street smarts, what is booksmarts? Can you rotate a 3d cow in your head? Does spelling matter if the point is valid?

“The machines we have now, they’re not conscious,” he says. “When one person teaches another person, that is an interaction between consciousnesses.” Meanwhile, AI models are trained by toggling so-called “weights” or the strength of connections between different variables in the model, in order to get a desired output. “It would be a real mistake to think that when you’re teaching a child, all you are doing is adjusting the weights in a network.”

Chiang’s main objection, a writerly one, is with the words we choose to describe all this. Anthropomorphic language such as “learn”, “understand”, “know” and personal pronouns such as “I” that AI engineers and journalists project on to chatbots such as ChatGPT create an illusion. This hasty shorthand pushes all of us, he says — even those intimately familiar with how these systems work — towards seeing sparks of sentience in AI tools, where there are none.

“There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’,” he says. “And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the ’50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we’re having now.”

So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics.

“It’s genuinely amazing that . . . these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text,” he says. But, in his view, that doesn’t make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, “but no one wants to use that term, because it’s not as sexy”.

[...]

Given his fascination with the relationship between language and intelligence, I’m particularly curious about his views on AI writing, the type of text produced by the likes of ChatGPT. How, I ask, will machine-generated words change the type of writing we both do? For the first time in our conversation, I see a flash of irritation. “Do they write things that speak to people? I mean, has there been any ChatGPT-generated essay that actually spoke to people?” he says.

Chiang’s view is that large language models (or LLMs), the technology underlying chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, are useful mostly for producing filler text that no one necessarily wants to read or write, tasks that anthropologist David Graeber called “bullshit jobs”. AI-generated text is not delightful, but it could perhaps be useful in those certain areas, he concedes.

“But the fact that LLMs are able to do some of that — that’s not exactly a resounding endorsement of their abilities,” he says. “That’s more a statement about how much bullshit we are required to generate and deal with in our daily lives.”

[dolcegalante]

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