Image Sampling

Inspiration: The fascinating, sometimes disorienting, image processing by the Japanese artist Kensuke Koike (see image below)

Description: So much of the statistical world involves building a model: reducing reality to a more manageable number of dimensions. Even the billions of parameters in the largest LLMs are a simplification of the sheer complexity of reality.

I think the rearrangements of Kensuke Koike provide beautiful intuition into the approximation of what's real. The work creates something wonderfully new, yet remains reminiscent, yearning, incomplete. A jumbled hint. I tried to recreate this effect in code and applied it to some of my favorite paintings and artworks.

Sources

Kensuke Koike - visual artist

Public Work - public domain artwork