u/Tzorben

The Moon is our Friend. The Moon has always been our Friend and will forever be our Friend. Lab technicians know this in their hearts and show their respect for their great Friend.

Fauvism is a painting style and art movement that emerged in France in the early 20th century. The Fauves were very enthusiastic about laboratory technology and incorporated laboratories, lab equipment, and - of course - lab coats into their art.

Created with the very old app Fractal Explorer.

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I have been asked about my creative process and I would like to try to answer that briefly.

To clear up any misunderstandings, I am not an artist and what I do is not art. It is decoration. That is why I often try to use my images as a background on my PC. Then they are useful.

For me, creating images with fractal software is a bit like taking pictures: You walk around and look around and when you see something interesting, you examine it more closely. Zoom in or out. Crop the image in one way or another. Experiment with light and colors. Maybe it will turn out well, maybe it will not turn out well and then you just move on. So it is first and foremost about *seeing* and then experimenting a little.

And as in photography, you have ultimately created an image, but you have not created the object the image shows. The object is created by the software and the mathematics that the software uses.

... and by the way, fractals do not give you the meaning of life or spiritual insights. But that doesn't make the mathematics any less exciting and the pictures are still pretty to look at.

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, but visible brushstrokes, open composition, an emphasis on precise depiction of light in its changing qualities, and laboratory technology. Laboratory technicians and their beautiful lab coats were a favorite motif among the masters.

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I can see from some of the comments on my latest pictures that people have a hard time seeing the plot in my "AI-Comics". I can understand that, because there *is* no plot or deeper meaning.

Here is the story behind the "comics", now I just hope I don't ruin the joke by explaining it.

I am Head of Studies at a program where we train lab technicians. Back in early 2024 I started experimenting with Adobe Firefly and Stable Diffusion and so it was obvious to make some pictures of lab technicians. It turned into a long series of "all kinds of lab technicians", which I use as a background on my PC. The series includes, for example, Steampunk lab technicians, Art Nouveau lab technicians, Superhero lab technicians*, etc., etc. I am currently running the series over on r/aiArt. For each of the "lab technician categories" I have made a small intro text, where I pretend that the lab technician category in question actually exists.

These are the little texts I've used as prompts for Stable Diffusion, along with a prompt asking if it should make it into a comic. The funniest thing is that Stable Diffusion takes the prompts dead-on and even makes some textual hallucinations that are quite funny and absurd. For example, "Knowledge has no Lungs", "Laboratory Technology is Ancestral" and "We were Vikings. We are Laboratory".

Stable Diffusion prompted with lines from the poem De Berusedes Vej (The Path of the Drunk) by Søren Ulrik Thomsen.

Created with the very old app Fractal Explorer.

Many strange things happened in the countryside in the 1880s. The lab technicians were of course on the front lines.

Stable Diffusion prompted with lines from the poem De Berusedes Vej (The Path of the Drunk) by Søren Ulrik Thomsen.

Automated laboratory technology is the future. Giant robots will perform advanced analytical techniques to perfection. In their free time, they play with humans in the wild.

Created with the very old app Fractal Explorer.

Dada or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of World War I and the earlier anti-art movement. Like all other major art movements, laboratory technology was central to the theoretical structure of the movement. The movement's greatest practitioners and models were all highly trained laboratory technicians who wore their lab coats with pride.

Stable Diffusion prompted with lines from the poem De Berusedes Vej (The Path of the Drunk) by Søren Ulrik Thomsen.

Strøget in the summer.

Created with the very old app Fractal Explorer.

French and Belgian comic art would never have been such a success without laboratory technology. We laugh and we cry with the lovable characters, and we are amazed by the exciting adventures of the laboratory technicians.

Stable Diffusion prompted with lines from the poem De Berusedes Vej (The Path of the Drunk) by Søren Ulrik Thomsen.