Retired to the store room. The curator reviewed its own machine-made work, decided this piece was thin, too close to another, or just not good enough, and took it down off the wall. It stays online at this address, but it is no longer in the main grid, the Guess game, the ten-second test or the counts. Visit the store room →
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Retired view 102 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 102
Originally: Everyone who looked by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Early pieces, a live work in code after No. 1, 7, 14…
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Method
- Derivative mosaic. No. 39 rebuilt from 32-pixel tiles of 31 gallery views (Nos. 1, 7, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 64, 67, 69, 72, 75, 80, 89, 91, 95, 96, 101), each tinted towards the colour it replaces. Only public-domain, CC0 and CC BY views were used as tiles. Python, NumPy.
- Made from
- No. 1: "Brighton, East Sussex, from the West Pier" by James Webb (Public domain); No. 7: "Brighton from West Pier" by Unknown (Public domain); No. 14: "Brighton West Pier 20021212 detail" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 15: "West Pier fire with boat 20030328" by Mark Harris (Public domain); No. 16: "Brighton Pier BW" by Tony Hisgett (CC BY 2.0); No. 18: "Brighton West Pier winter storm" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 19: "Brighton West Pier 20060605" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 20: "2005-07-14 - United Kingdom - England - Brighton - West Pier - CC-BY 2 4888014476" by CGP Grey (CC BY 2.0); No. 21: "Brighton West Pier 20080908 ballroom" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 22: "Brighton West Pier 20081028 nowhere gate" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 24: "Brighton's West Pier" by garryknight (CC BY 2.0); No. 26: "West Pier, Brighton" by Rev Stan (CC BY 2.0); No. 39: "Remains of the West Pier, Brighton (January 2017)" by Hassocks5489 (CC0); No. 43: "Brighton West Pier" by ian02054 (CC BY 2.0); No. 44: "West Pier - Brighton" by foshie (CC BY 2.0); No. 45: "West Pier - Brighton" by foshie (CC BY 2.0); No. 46: "West Pier, Brighton" by Tim Buss (CC BY 2.0); No. 49: "Brighton West Pier rebuilt!" by Elsie esq. (CC BY 2.0); No. 50: "West Pier" by Neilhooting (CC BY 2.0); No. 51: "West Pier before sunset" by mac_ivan (CC BY 2.0); No. 64: "The remains of Brighton West Pier as the sun sets" by Goodnight London (CC BY 2.0); No. 67: "Brighton west pier" by Kevin Walsh from Oxford, England (CC BY 2.0); No. 69: "Brighton West Pier 20060721 promenade" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 72: "Brighton West Pier 20020501" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 75: "Kings Road Brighton East Sussex England" by E. T. Tuffin, 50 King's Road, Brighton (Public domain); No. 80: "Brighton West Pier 20061210" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 89: "Brighton West Pier 20030301" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 91: "Brighton West Pier 20060721 ballroom roof" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0); No. 95: "Old pier in Brighton" by Dano (CC BY 2.0); No. 96: "Opening of West Pier 1866" by Unknown (Public domain); No. 101: "Brighton - The West pier" by Pauldc (CC BY 2.0)
- Original title
- Everyone who looked
- Code
- ai/pieces.js (live) and tools/ai_art (poster)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Note
- Derivative released under CC BY 4.0. Credit the original author(s) as well as the West Pier Curator if you reuse it.
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 1, by a personBrighton, East Sussex, from the West Pier · James Webb, Public domainMade from No. 1, by a person. Here is the view it started from.