This is the cover illustration I submitted to the Yale Undergraduate Research Journal.
Tabula Rasa: Mechanism, Intelligence, and the Blank Slate in Computing and Urbanism
The piece I submitted shows a Japanese temple that is slightly glitched. On the top half, the same temple is reflected but in black and white— somewhat resembling a sketch or template. The bottom half of the image has a white background with a grid pattern while the top half is the color palette of the original temple below. The black and white grid represents a blank slate in several ways. Firstly, it resembles clean graph paper that is ready to be drawn on. Secondly, it looks like an empty color palette, as if the colors from the image have yet to be filled into the squares below. Neural networks resist the separation of information and mechanism. This is represented in the glitching of the image. The separate layers increase in complexity from an empty grid to a color palette to a black and white sketch of a temple to a complete temple. The palette concept and layers were inspired by some of the images provided by the author.
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