Originally Posted by iron_jones (Post 184196)

Please no Beatles.

Originally Posted by Cyvaris (Post 184304)

So, has anyone played around wit the new "Deep Dream" program stuff? The images are insane. Feeding Avatar stills into it is fun as well.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/142825

Originally Posted by Cyvaris (Post 184308)

Yes, it's a series of filters revealing how a computer "sees" images. Shortest version, we've trained a computer to tell us what is a picture of a "dog" by showing it millions of pictures we've told it are a "dog" and now it sees dogs everywhere.

More examples
https://deepdreamin.s3-eu-west-1.ama...bc1c831b10.jpg
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/302259
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/302428

Yes...I think Avatar works well with this.

Originally Posted by Carl Sagan

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Originally Posted by The Silver Stag (Post 184333)

Well, that's the end of Avatar-Forums. Bloody good while it lasted.

Originally Posted by The Silver Stag (Post 184333)

Well, that's the end of Avatar-Forums. Bloody good while it lasted.

Originally Posted by Forest Goddess

hey Stag, Ja'k here...where's the like button?! my mom's name was hoffman and my dad's name was channing-cook, but damn if i don't love me some European sense of humor lol. you get some of that, dammit. :-)

Originally Posted by Ja'k Dawsiin (Post 184360)

looking forward to the video, Alan:)

Originally Posted by Ja'k Dawsiin (Post 184591)

i hope you'll will forgive me, but i am probably gonna be bumping a lot of old threads, not meaning to uselessly necro-post, but we are gonna liven up ToS, now that AF has gone extinct sadly. some of the older threads look interesting, and you can rest assured i will post something worthwhile before i raise them from the dead.:)

Originally Posted by TireaAean (Post 184683)

AF is BACK!!

@AvatarForums just tweeted moments ago. Looks like Lon put AF on a new server, completely restored, now with no ads!