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2.3 Inputs, Rules, and Feedback

Session 2 · AI Art Crafting · Lesson 03

Inputs, Rules, and Feedback

Every interpretive system reduces to one loop: inputs pass through rules into outputs, and feedback carries outputs back to the start. Watch for emergent behavior.

Concept

  • The core diagram: Inputs → Rules/System → Outputs/Behavior, with feedback returning.
  • Five system types: archive-driven, rule-based translation, feedback-driven, time-based, participatory.
  • Emergence is observed, not designed.

What is the smallest complete loop your idea needs?

Student activity

15:00
  1. 01Sketch your system as one loop: input, rule, output, feedback.

System builder

Input

image

Interpretation

describe

Rule

define the rule

Output

observe what emerges

Feedback

feedback loop × 3

Output returns to input — next iteration until the stopping condition is met