Spheres Comparison Study

## Sphere Study (Queren)

"Sphere Study" was a large-scale artwork series performed on NightCafé by user Queren, to determine how a basic starting image would be influenced by intentionally detailed words. Beginning sometime in October 2021, the project eventually encompassed 155 generated art pieces, and would serve as an inspirational basis for further series by the user.

### Series Basics

The prompts for each artwork followed a simple pattern of using "[Word] Sphere", with the [Word] being an adjective or noun. The words were explicitly picked for two reasons - to generate an unusual or rare reaction from the NC AI, and also to insert words rarely used in other pieces of art. A self-imposed rule was to have only one word used at any time, and later on, two words were occasionally combined because of this.

An image of a transparent glass sphere on a featureless background was used as a canvas, in order for the AI to add as much detail as possible without being obstructed by pre-existing color or detail. For the seeds, while some were intentionally made for each word, the majority were randomized on purpose. The reason for the latter is, at least during the series' upload period, the default seed was always 42.

### Anomalies

There were several instances of prompts not following the same rules as others during the series. They are mentioned and explained as follows.

1. To preserve the usage of credits for each piece of artwork, only 15 out of the first 130 artworks were made using more than one credit. When using more than that, emphasis was almost always placed on the duration, not the size. Only two pieces from the series, #29 (*Tie-Dye Sphere*) and #100 (*Universe Sphere*), prioritized a larger size.
2. Up until #45 (*Seasons Sphere*), the prompt for each piece was actually "[Word] Sphere [Artwork Number]". At some point, Queren wondered if removing the number from the prompt would change anything about the outcome itself, and when nothing changed, the numbers were almost universally phased out of the prompt.
3. Three early prompts were changed for release, when the result looked much different from expectations. They are #11 (*Grassy Sphere* - originally *Unraveling Sphere*), #17 (*Insanity Sphere* - originally *Insane Sphere*), and #18 (*Sea Sphere* - originally *Abyss Sphere*).
4. Two prompts had to be evolved due to the inadequate nature of their original results. They are #25 (*Billion Sphere*) and #116 (*CompoundEye Sphere*).
5. After the official end of the series at 150, five other sphere pieces were created as part of it in the hopes of continuing further, only for Queren to lose interest very quickly.

### Gallery

##### Spheres #1-50

#1 Iridescent Sphere#2 Corrugated Sphere#3 Wireframe Sphere#4 Fractal Sphere#5 Inky Sphere#6 Midnight Sphere#7 Mottled Sphere#8 Charred Sphere#9 Mitosis Sphere#10 Marvelous Sphere#11 Grassy Sphere#12 Vector Sphere#13 Rough Sphere#14 Troubled Sphere#15 Darkened Sphere#16 Demonic Sphere#17 Insanity Sphere#18 Sea Sphere#19 Magnetic Sphere#20 Spherical Sphere#21 Rainbow Sphere#22 Sandstorm Sphere#23 Canyon Sphere#24 Mandelbrot Sphere#25 Billion Sphere#26 Jupiter Sphere#27 Explosion Sphere#28 SSCG(3) Sphere#29 Tie-Dye Sphere (Medium)#30 Woodcut Sphere#31 Mirrored Sphere#32 Coconut Sphere#33 Tessellation Sphere#34 Sierpiński Sphere#35 Geometric Sphere#36 Psychedelic Sphere#37 Ouroboros Sphere#38 Obscured Sphere#39 Supersonic Sphere#40 Hyperspectral Sphere#41 Infrared Sphere#42 Opalescent Sphere#43 Liminal Sphere#44 Thunderbolt Sphere#45 Seasons Sphere#46 Interdimensional Sphere#47 Forest Sphere#48 Room Sphere#49 Shockwave Sphere#50 Tornadic Sphere#56 BlackHole Sphere#58 Eruption Sphere#61 Karma Sphere#67 Fog Sphere#68 Gouache Sphere#72 Synesthesia Sphere#73 Neutrino Sphere#75 Radiant Sphere#84 Shadow Sphere#87 Submachine Sphere#93 Human Sphere#108 Spiraling Sphere#113 Tesseract Sphere#129 Dusk Sphere#138 BROWN Sphere#145 LOVE Sphere#150 END Sphere