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From Rock Art to AI Generated Art
Rock art has fascinated me for the past couple of years. During the last year, I’ve also been struck by the output from AI art generators. Sometimes I’m asked about why my project about interpreting ancient rock carvings is relevant today. With the rapid advancement of AI art generation, we’re witnessing a significant milestone in […]
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Ausevika figure interpretation 1
I drew and interpretation of what the creature in one of the rock carving figures at Ausevika might represent. It’s a four-legged creature with a large mouth and big claws. My first thought was that it might be a bear, but the ears are too long for a bear. Maybe a wolf, though it doesn’t […]
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Monkeybot – a simple chatbot template
I made a fun little chatbot called Monkeybot for my website, and I’ll share the code for anyone who wants to do something similar. The Monkeybot does nothing more than reply with a string of random letters to any question from the user, simulating a monkey hammering on the keyboard. It was a fun challenge […]
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Møllerstufossen Petroglyphs Part 2
First post about Møllerstufossen: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/2022/05/16/mollerstufossen/ Some of the figures at Møllerstufossen reminds me of goats more than moose or deer, such as this one: Møllerstufossen is one of two areas with petroglyphs in Innlandet county, the other one being Moelv which has some figures that also look like goats to me: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/page/5/ There is a […]
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Animal heads
Some recent colored pencil drawings of a pigeon, a lioness and a bear done as Christmas gifts.
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Randomly display different versions of an image
I created two versions of an illustration of a letter to be displayed on the contact page of my website. I wanted which version of the image that was displayed to be random and wrote some code to make this happen. I’ll share the code here incase some wants to something similar on their website. […]
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Alta humanoid petroglyph
There are a few humanoid figures in the north of Norway with spread arms and legs like the one above. A typical interpretation of this type of figure is that of a pregnant woman about to give birth, perhaps seen from above when lying on the ground. But there are several aspects of the figure […]
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Workshop and Melhus Petroglyphs
I held a workshop/seminar about interpreting rock art for first year archeology students at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In the evening I joined the students and teachers on a field trip to Melhus to view petroglyphs after dark. There are several areas with recently found petroglyphs in Melhus in the […]
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Moelv Petroglyphs Part 6
The figure to the left (figure 14) i interpreted as a moose where the internal pattern is a snake with an open mouth inside the stomach of the moose. Why the original artists drew these internal patterns on deer figures is a bit of a mystery. That the artist’s intent was to represent a snake […]
