Operational Atlas

OB_024 — Reconstructed erroneous patches

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OB_024_Reconstructed_erroneous_patches

Status

Status:: Finished

1. Operation data

Internal number: OB_024
Operational regime: Algorithmic transformation
Source image: Mountain landscape photograph with a tree in the foreground.

Operational description:
The image is divided into fragments or patches. Each fragment is replaced or displaced using other areas of the same image with similar visual characteristics. Repeating the process generates a partially coherent, yet spatially incorrect reconstruction.

2. Tools

Tools / medium:

  • Python script
  • Division of the image into patches
  • Comparison and replacement of fragments based on visual similarity

Script (2026-09 audit): Lost (not recovered in the 2026-09 audit) — the sheet mentions a ‘Python script’ among the tools, but the file was not saved in the Atlas.

3. Variables

Controlled variables:

  • Patch size
  • Number of replaced fragments
  • Degree of required similarity between patches
  • Number / intensity of iterations

Uncontrolled / accidental variables:

  • Final position of the selected fragments
  • Unexpected repetitions and accumulations
  • Emerging shapes produced by local matches

4. Visual sequence

Initial image

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5. Visual selection

Crisis / threshold according to AI-assisted reading / ChatGPT

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Crisis / threshold according to my perception

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6. Crisis and formal-perceptual reading

Where the crisis occurs and the operation affects the visual grammar of the image: shape, contour, figure/ground relationship, legibility, recognition, and support:

The operation mainly affects shape, contour, figure/ground relationship, legibility, and recognition. The boundaries of the tree become fragmented, and parts of the landscape occupy its interior. The image partially retains its original chromatic distribution, but loses spatial continuity. The patch grid gradually becomes visible and begins to function as a new structure of the image.

7. Final evaluation and artistic reference

Operation notes / what I learned:
when you increase the script parameters too much, they escape and start failing to work, stepping outside the contours of the image

Estado_final:
Works:: [YES]

How it destroys the image:
Works_on:: [Formal]

Level and richness of crisis:
Crisis:: Medium

Decision:
Selection:: [Save] [Combinable]

Possible artistic reference

Referente:: Konrad Wyrebek, David Hockney, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter, Paul Cézanne,

Possible works:

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