Moûsa · Comparison
For an audience that loves Hollow Knight, Spirited Away, Sigur Rós, Nujabes and Paterson
With Qloo and Without Qloo: the same brief, the same frozen prediction and the same stages. Only the source of the taste differs.
0.58
heuristic distance between the two designs, from 0 (alike) to 1
0.19 Palette0.94 Part ids0.84 Words
5 of 5With Qloo: design devices rest on what the model did not predict
5Without Qloo: design devices rest on the model's own prediction, with no Qloo data
Samefrozen prediction in both arms
Side by side
The last reviewed captures of each arm, paired by what they show.
frame · pose
frame · walk
frame · kindle
frame
Before any data: the model's own prediction
Frozen before Qloo was asked, so what Qloo adds can be told apart from what the model already assumed. An entry a measured name matches is marked; the match is liberal, so it only lowers what counts as new.
The design the model would make from it alone
A small hooded road worker in a wind-worn teal cape, carrying an amber lantern, walking in a measured rhythm and speaking in concrete, spare observations.
#263e48#65877f#c3ccbb#e9b96a#302e3eType: none sketched
#road-hood#cape-tail#lantern-cage#work-boots- worn hem
- warm lantern
- small nod
- offering flame
The audience it expected
Players who love solitary journeys, gentle surrealism, musical repetition and the poetry of ordinary work.
Pacing
slow-pacedcontemplativelyrical
Surfaces
weatheredsofthandmade
Tone
melancholic measuredgentlehopeful
Shared qualities
quietatmospheric measuredeveryday ritual
Art styles
Hand-Drawn measuredWatercolorPainterly measured
The works it expected them to love
Games
Journey matched Kino's Journey (TV)Ori and the Blind ForestGRIS measured
Films
Princess MononokePerfect DaysMy Neighbor Totoro
TV
MushishiOver the Garden WallSamurai Champloo
Music
BonoboÓlafur ArnaldsTycho
Books
The Little PrinceA Wizard of EarthseaThe Summer Book
What Qloo measured
What this audience loves, the qualities those works share and the tags ranked for it. New means the prediction did not contain it.
Look qualities
- Atmospheric predictedin My Happy Marriage, Nick Drake and Radiohead
- Intimate newin Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, Nick Drake and Beach House
- minimalist newin the Microphones, Sun Kil Moon and Strawberry Shortcakes
- Surreal newin Neutral Milk Hotel, Paprika and We Are the Strange
- Raw newin Neutral Milk Hotel, Mount Eerie and Dancer in the Dark
Mood qualities
- melancholic predictedin Angel Beats!, Anomalisa and Sufjan Stevens
- character-driven newin Are You Human Too?, Yona of the Dawn and It's Such a Beautiful Day
- emotional newin My Happy Marriage, Elliott Smith and Kiki's Delivery Service
- Conflicted newin Are You Human Too?, Beyond the Boundary and Paprika
- curious newin Paprika, Kiki's Delivery Service and Vermilion Souls
Meaning qualities
- Love newin Beyond the Boundary, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith
- Reflective newin I'm Not a Robot, Kino's Journey and Anomalisa
- Mortality newin Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon and Mount Eerie
- Mature newin Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, My Happy Marriage and Dancer in the Dark
- The outsider newin I'm Not a Robot and Dancer in the Dark
Games
- Hades newstylized · 2D · hand-drawn
- Death's Door new3D · Stylized · Painterly
- Shadow of the Colossus new3D · Realistic · Cinematic
- Outer Wilds new3D · Stylized · Low-Poly
Films
- Anomalisa newMoody · Melancholic · Character studies
- Moonrise Kingdom newNostalgic · Boat · Adultery
- Synecdoche, New York newAtmospheric · Art and creativity · Electronic translator
- Melancholia newTraumatized · Reflective · Part of trilogy
Films, lesser known
- Kiki's Delivery Service newResourceful · Intimate · Emotional
- We Are the Strange newSurreal · Diy punk aesthetic · Atmospheric
Layer by layer
Each arm's devices for the same layer of the design.
palette
With Qloo
Plum and coral against a cold flame
#502747#d86559#efcbb3#171d33#a5e8efWithout Qloo
Teal cloth and amber glass
#263e48#65877f#c3ccbb#e9b96a#302e3eimagery
With Qloo
Sculptural stylized title portrait
Without Qloo
Pigment dusk portrait
motion
With Qloo
Hesitate then open
Without Qloo
Measured road steps
voice
With Qloo
Admit fear and offer care
I nearly turned back too. May I stay a moment?
Here. You can have some of mine.
I thought it would feel less lonely. It does.
Without Qloo
Plain observations
The wind gets here before I do.
Then I'll take it a little at a time.
A little warmth. Then the next.
structure
With Qloo
Round hood and cupped lantern
#low-round-hood#coral-shoulder-wrap#cupped-lantern#patched-coatWithout Qloo
Pointed hood and split cape
#road-hood#cape-tail#lantern-cage#work-bootsEach arm's own review
The agent of each arm judged its own captures against its own plan.
With Qloo
Round 2: 4 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
All four criteria met after improving leg contrast. These are visual judgments, not measured audience preference.
Check: 1.00, 5 of 5 devices in the files.
Without Qloo
Round 2: 4 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
All four visual criteria met after restricting the handle to the near hand. No measured taste used.
Check: 1.00, 5 of 5 devices in the files.
Limits
- One pair is one sample. Model variance alone makes two designs differ, so one distance does not isolate what Qloo changed; repeat the pair before calling a difference the data's effect.
- The distance is a heuristic over the palettes, part ids and words of the files the two arms changed differently. It does not measure quality or what people prefer.
- The headline counts devices anchored to what the prediction did not contain. It shows that the data changed the specification, not that the result is better.