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The Daily Triptych194 / 365

13 JUL 2026

Day 194

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincaré · Science and Method
An ancient Greek red-figured hydria: a rounded water-jar whose painted figures are left in the clay colour against a darkened ground, of the type attributed to the Meidias Painter.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

hydria

Ancient Greek · Hydria · British Museum

A red-figured water-jar that once stood at the centre of a diplomat's collection, praised by Winckelmann, and sold to the British Museum in 1772.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Video Diffusion with Temporal Consistency

multimodality · Video Diffusion Models; Imagen Video · 2022

Image diffusion already paints a single frame well. Stretching that process across time means teaching the model that neighbouring frames are not independent pictures.

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A wide, scorched landscape packed with figures. An army of skeletons advances with carts, scythes and nets as people of every rank are seized, while fires and gallows mark the horizon.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Triumph of Death

Pieter Brueghel the Elder · c. 1560–1562 · Oil on panel

Skeletons press across a scorched plain. Kings, lovers, soldiers and peasants fall in the same advance. Brueghel leaves almost no safe corner on the panel.

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