Scene to scene

Reality distortion is fun because it’s both familiar and surprising. Some friends and I combined Google Street View and Stable Diffusion and found it pretty good at inducing such prediction errors. For details on the thinking behind and methods for generating 360° scenes, check out my friend’s essay. Depending on whether we managed to sponsor the compute you can find the app running at panoramai.xyz. The code is here.

Here are some examples:

Psychedelic Lausanne

Matrix Manhattan

HR Giger mall

Lego market

Some metrics about the project: 10k users while it was up, featured on Ben’s Bites.