Date: 12/21/2023
Time: 3-4pm Eastern
Organizer: Flora Yu Zhu
Meeting size: 20 high school students
Location: Great Neck South High School Library Computer Lab
Teacher: Gina Russo

Flora Yu Zhu, a sophormmore from the Great Neck South High School, NYC, is a program alumni, and also a student volunteer for the Planet+AI program. She organized this event.

Meeting Goals

• To foster a strong interest in AI
• To facilitate meaningful learning experience
• To empower students to apply AI in creating artworks themed on planetary explorations
• To make the learing process accessible and fun for everyone who is interested in AI
• To unlock new possibilities in AI art.
  
  
  
  Discussions
  We examined the GitHub page and talked about the arxiv article and then we created optical illusions with the colab notebooks provided by the article authors. We tried flips, rotations, jigsaw rearrangements. We discussed the following questions:
• What is the difference between Midjourney and the code we navigated today?
• How can we perform color inversion with the given Colab notebook?
• What is the difference between a flip of an image and a 180 degree rotation?
• How would AI generated images, in this case, optical illusions affect our lives? In other words, how can we use this technique in our everyday life?