NeRF aesthetics

I have seen the noise created in the Neural Radiance Field generation process as "hallucinations", language that is both poetic and problematic at the same time. Rather than attempting to reduce this visual phenomenon, I have been working with it (and finding ways to encourage / exaggerate it) as a way of embracing and exploring this NeRF aesthetic. (An aesthetic I assume will be optimised out of the process as the technology "advances")

["The Nicholson Hermes" @ the Chau Chak Wing Museum ]

NOTES

Hallucination is currently in common usage across the machine learning space as an accepted "semi-technical" term, including in the "mission" page for Meta's ill-fated(?) "Galactica".

image: https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp/blob/master/docs/nerf_dataset_tips.md

image: https://galactica.org/mission/