Gallery of Babel

Why is it all static?

Every image here is pure random noise: each of its 16,384 pixels gets a random shade from the image's seed. There are 256^16,384 possible 128×128 grayscale images, a number with 39,457 digits. The observable universe has about 10⁸⁰ atoms, a number with 81 digits. Almost all of those images look like static.

By chance, a few come a little closer to the statistics of natural photographs. Your browser hunts for them, and a spectral test scores each one. No model is involved, only the arithmetic described in how the gallery works.

Image models work the other way round. They don't search the noise; they learned what natural images look like, so they can make one on request. Understanding these models, and creating with them, is what Echo teaches.

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