Notices by Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social), page 4

So glad to see Apple+CHM releasing the source code to LisaOS and Lisa Workshop on its 40th anniversary! https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/chm-makes-apple-lisa-source-code-available-to-the-public-as-a-part-of-its-art-of-code-series/

It's been nearly 9 years (!) since I sat down and tried to figure out how development for the Apple Lisa worked, using the LisaEm emulator, and documented my findings https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20140527-Lisa-Pascal-Development-in-Lisa-Workshop

I do wish polls on Mastodon could run for 7 days — 24 hours is way too short for the kind of polls I like to run (@Gargron) — but it looks pretty much like a 50/50 split as to whether developers here are going to offer their iOS apps on visionOS through compatibility mode. It sounds like it's going to be much closer to iOS-on-Mac app availability than iPhone-on-iPad, at the very least

Just a happy little guy

Take your pick!

2024 gonna be like

Midjourney v6’s new text feature is kinda fun — it does a much better job of integrating readable text into generated images

The level of photorealism is kinda incredible. You have to really start pixel-peeping to try and figure out whether this is a real image or not

(It's not)

The next Jurassic Park movie? No, just AI…

That famous Pixar scene where the ChatGPT guy stares in disbelief at the Siri guy failing to toggle the light switch.

…maybe a bit of a stretch, but the image looked too good to not post. These characters and their personalities feel like they could go straight into production; how could you not include AI generation in your concept art process or mood boards?

It's also got a whole lot better at generating pixel art, or at least what could pass for pixel art at a glance

Midjourney v6 is much better at producing comic panels, and can even insert things like speech bubbles with the text you provide

Finding the magic keywords and phrases for compelling AI-generated art is incredibly satisfying. Every piece is like discovering something that nobody else in the world has seen before. You can easily spend hours crafting and iterating on a prompt to get the effect you're looking for; it seems silly to maintain that there's no effort or creative skill involved

One thing that's very evident now is that if you are a famous creative your voice, your likeness, your art style and more are all going to live on for public use looong after you’re gone. Donated to the gestalt. Digital ‘resurrections’ used to be the realm of high end visual effects studios, but now anybody can make Freddie Mercury sing All I Want For Christmas Is You. When AI-generated video catches up to this level of fidelity, we're in danger 😂

Meanwhile, here's a Dinotopia-inspired scene

Midjourney can be pretty consistent in style between runs, which makes it easier to see it as a useful tool in creative work. I’d love to see what comes out of a game jam that really embraces AI art

Midjourney is so much better at generating fake album art than it was a year ago, when I did all my marketing images

It's kinda fun to give Midjourney completely abstract or nonsense prompts just to see where the fever dream takes you

I guess we've taught the AIs that we really frickin like heavy depth of field, huh? It’s almost difficult to get Midjourney to not output something like this 😂

Blimey. These ain’t movie stills, this is Midjourney’s attempt at ‘live action Luca’

I scrolled back through my Midjourney history to remind myself what its generated images used to look like, about 18 months ago. The difference to today (second pic) is *astonishing*

Midjourney's take on 'podracing' is my new favorite thing