052025

ComfyUI ARC Series

A recursive panorama pipeline that speculates architecture from captured space.

Location
Ongoing / non-sited
Coordinates
WIP
Category
Computational

Lucien Mount · current WIP

MACHINE HALLUCINATION

Speculating architecture from captured space.

The ARC series is a recursive experiment. A panoramic capture maps the spatial experience of a real place, then an initial ControlNet pass generates a landscape through a diffusion model trained on 1960s to 90s architectural drawings.

A second, lighter pass at higher CFG refines the result, sharpening the hallucination into something that reads as buildable form.

ARC OUTPUT / HALLUCINATED MEGASTRUCTURE
PANORAMA CAPTURE / THE CONTROL SIGNAL

THE PIPELINE

Capture, control, refine.

It starts with the room itself: a raw panorama, unwrapped flat, carrying the geometry of the space as a control signal.

The model reads that signal and answers with architecture, drawing on the training set to invent structure where there was only a photograph.

NEXT

Closing the loop by hand.

The speculation is where it goes next: extending the output into post-rationalization through manual architectural drawing, closing the loop between machine hallucination and design intent.

ARC OUTPUT / A SECOND HALLUCINATION
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