NY Digital Awards -  Silver

2025

Bubble Worlds

Entrant

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Category

Design and Creativity - Generative AI

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Bubble World presents a focused body of work: nine stand-alone images and a concise making-of video. It states a clear premise—a bubble is design’s thinnest container with the widest capacity. Built on SDXL, our in-house text-pair fusion works entirely in language: for each pair, we run iterative, random column swapping between the word embedding of “bubble” and the embedding of the target term; an automated fitting process adjusts the swap pattern until the hybrid reads as one idea—credible yet surprising. No manual cherry-picking is involved; the pipeline is reproducible and extendable.

This edition follows the logic of containment, relation, and release: a tornado becomes a hollow vortex lens; a flamingo curves into a liquid ring; a yucca tree crystallizes into desert lace; an aurora gathers as a suspended globe; a lionfish blooms like a glass anemone; tulips thicken into iridescent bulbs; a volcano closes into a cooling ring; an owl condenses inside a lucid sphere; a sea anemone rises within a breathing dome. Palettes stay restrained; thin-film shimmer and the meniscus edge remain consistent so trust arrives before wonder.



key highlights:



Innovation & Creativity. Turns two-word input (“bubble” + subject) into a controllable text-level fusion, enabling the model to explore the unknown from the known and yield diverse, reproducible hybrids.



Content Quality. Each result reads as a single object, not a collage; the hybrids are credible yet surprising, following the series logic of containment–relation–release.



Visual Design. Restrained palettes, stable thin-film highlights, and consistent meniscus edges ensure clean readability before spectacle; forms such as the vortex lens, liquid ring, desert lace, suspended globe, glass bloom, iridescent bulb, cooling ring, lucid sphere, and breathing dome show coherent transformations.



User Experience & Accessibility. Delivery consists of nine images plus a making-of video that reveals the fusion process clearly and succinctly.



Technical Execution. Built on SDXL with iterative random column swapping between embeddings and automated fitting; no manual cherry-picking; method is reproducible and extendable.



Performance. With only two words as input, the pipeline reliably produces readable hybrids across subjects, supporting expansion of the series under same rules.

Credits

PhD. candidate/Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Zedong Zhang
PhD. candidate/Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Zeren Xiong
Prof./Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Jian Yang
Prof./Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Jun Li
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