Well, there’s a query I’ll wager you’ve by no means requested your self. Don’t fear, me neither.

But somebody on the market on the web did.

Pong after all is the arcade videogame that began all of it – each online game that has come since, was birthed out of Pong, which additionally occurs to be 50 years outdated this yr.

Atari’s fiftieth anniversary has been effectively documented, together with right here on the weblog a few occasions this yr. Check out the video on this latest submit for very early footage of Pong cupboards being constructed on Atari’s manufacturing facility ground.

Pong was the trade’s first commercially profitable videogame. “Avoid missing ball for high score” was all folks wanted to know to get pleasure from gaming. Simple and clear directions that knowledgeable folks easy methods to work together with this new leisure medium.

Read up on the creation of Pong on this wonderful article by Benj Edwards right here.

Which leads us to the query requested within the title of this submit: What if Pong was a Sci-Fi film? This was a query that Graphic Designer (amongst different issues) Johnny Darrell requested himself lately.

To discover this concept, Johnny used an AI software known as MidJourney. The software takes ideas urged by the person, then makes them a actuality, through an interactive bot. In easy phrases, you describe what you wish to see, and MidJourney will trawl the net, seize photos which might be in tune with what you’ve described, then combines them in a novel and creative approach. What is introduced again to the person are artistic, bespoke photos, generated utilizing Midjourney’s synthetic intelligence.

So when Johnny needed to generate AI photos to point out what a movie based mostly on the videogame Pong would possibly appear to be, that is what got here again. The result’s so outstanding, I needed to share them right here on the weblog:

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How cool are these? Entirely generated by AI in a Stanley Kubrick late-70s fashion sci-fi fashion. The sense of a dystopian Pong world is outstanding. The photos call to mind films of the period like THX1138, Logan’s Run, Bladerunner and 2001: A Space Odessey.

Johnny even mocked up a film poster to go along with the pictures:

A barely leftfield submit this week, however I’m certain you’ll agree, one value sharing with you all!

Huge due to Johnny Darrell for permitting me to share these superb photos right here on the weblog. You can try extra of Johnny’s work right here.

See you subsequent time.

Tony

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