Work in progress, testing Fable 5: screensaver with infinite procedurally generated VHS found footage of someone lost in the Backrooms

What is going on here though!?

Just throwing in my calling card

this is the modern version of the 3d pipe screensaver. i love it

what the actual fuck i havent had a single piece of creativity inspire my own like this in literal years. thank you, good sir.

this is go good

That's super cool. So it'll run for as long as you specify and the output is this video? Or does it just play and you screen record it?

It’s just rendering to a file currently with the time pre-specified. My plan is to just run on a loop, picking a new seed every 120s or so. I eventually want to have features that show up with different levels of rarity so there’s treats for leaving it run a while.

I could see people watching it on a live stream, especially if you have rare events like you mentioned.

AI for horror

this is just corporate america with worse lighting

So good. I need more of your style posts but with fable

The only backrooms I want to be lost in

Saves your screen by burning your GPU?

be careful

The VHS aesthetic layered over procedural generation makes it feel like something that could run forever and still be unsettling every time.

I think I worked there once.

what

Looks dopeee

nightmare

Nice! Although VHS wasn't nearly that bad... was it? You want at least 240 scan lines, maybe even 480

Would be cool if it was multiplayer and voice was based on how close you were to the person. That way you could run into people haha

ngl a screensaver that makes my monitor look haunted is exactly what my setup needs

this is amazing

everything fable does is so cool. i feel like i suddenly have a programmer friend my buddy chatgpt and i can bounce ideas off of and make into something real. We really do live in the future.

Can you explain the part that Fable is doing here? How are you getting to video?

All code is from Fable; I’m only giving it feedback on the content of its videos with no guidance on how to implement. It’s doing the core 3D rendering in raw numpy without a graphics library, some post-processing through PIL and scipy, then ffmpeg. This will all have to change for it to be a screensaver; I’m just prototyping here.

@xlr8harder Oh hey

@jxnlco infinite backrooms is terrifying.

That’s awesome 😎

That’s awesome lol

reminds me of the game stanley parable

Who needs video models when you can just rawdog it procedurally.

That's oddly mesmerizing!

thank you for recovering this footage of an engineer looking for the documentation

Impressive

so good

WTF is this good for? Isn't it just another example of superfluous slop? I don't get it. Waste of time (to do something good).

Love it, I’ve been working on something along these lines called Latent Liminal. Will share it ✌️

Omg this is amazing