Comment by giantfrog
1 day ago
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
1 day ago
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
Constraints really breed creativity. The demoscene is probably my favorite example of it.
This is why the perpetual obsession with creating new genres in university art departments is so dumb. One told a prospective student (my wife's friend) "we don't do beautiful here" as if that signals erudition.
Real beauty comes from expressing something coherent within constraints such that the constraints become the means of expression.
I was happy to see gen Z art students dropping this sort of snobism when I visited a student art exhibition made for an edition of the Long Night of Museums in my city.
Instead of the usual hideous red, black, grey and white that seemed ubiquitous since at least the 80s along with the most terrible textures one could find, there was blue, yellow, different shades of green.
And one painting featuring an exchange of text messages.