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1Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA.
Patterns (New York, N.Y.)
|April 20, 2026
Abstract:
Using an external starting image and sparse action prompts, Transformative AI treats image generation as iterative navigation through an irregular, high-dimensional manifold. This user-guided process preserves expressive development and explores regions apparently inaccessible to text-to-image workflows. I illustrate this with an example and compare it to a text-to-image equivalent.