“Paragraphica” is the name of the AI ​​camera that requires no lenses. Gone are the days when you had to deal with the exposure triangle to get your photo the way you wanted it. You no longer choose the image section yourself in order to give the photo your own preferred composition.

In photography, light is the be-all and end-all; the term itself comes from ancient Greek and means something like “painting with light”. The term “camera” in turn is derived from “camera obscura”. This was a room or dark box with a small opening through which light came in and created an inverted image of the outside world on the opposite walls or a projection surface on the floor.

Neither one nor the other applies to the Paragraphica. So does this have anything to do with classic photography? Probably not. – This probably wasn't a top priority when Bjørn Karmann, Danish designer and artist, invented Paragraphica.

What exactly is the Paragraphica?

The Paragraphica works with completely different information than that required for photography. She works with data. Data such as location, date, time of day, weather and temperature or even nearby places. It collects these using open APIs and uses this information to create a picture of this place.

Bjørn Karmann presents his AI camera in a tweet:

A prompt is created from the existing data. A “prompt” is an instruction, in this case a description of the existing data. This is passed on to the image AI Stable Diffusion, which creates an image from the prompt.

There are three setting options on the Paragraphica:

  • Radius (meters): Area in which the camera searches for locations and data
  • Grain: Creates a noise seed for the AI ​​image diffusion process
  • Guide / leadership scale: The higher the value, the more precisely the AI ​​follows the instructions

Paragraphica currently has a prototype that Karmann uses to visualize his images. There is also a virtual version that you can test yourself. – Unfortunately, a test did not work because the virtual Paragraphica is currently very busy.

Art project

For all those who approach Paragraphica with skepticism or even incomprehension, it is important to know that this is an art project. He responded to numerous comments about why Karmann doesn't simply take a photo with a conventional camera instead of "faking" the locations using AI on Twitter:

“There are a lot of questions in the threads, so I would like to clarify that this is an art project of passion, with no intention of making a product or challenging photography. Rather, it’s about questioning the role of AI in a time of creative tension.”

Bjørn Karmann on Twitter

The design of the AI ​​imaging device was designed by Karmann and manufactured using a 3D printer. The red construction on the front has no function, but is intended to be a metaphor for the tactile organ of the star-nosed mole. This animal lives underground and does not need light to perceive its surroundings using its finger-like antennae. And that brings us full circle: a “camera” that works without light.

Source:

bjoernkarmann.dk

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