ButterflyDreaming is primarily a text platform — but text can also be used as a seed or code to invoke richer media. A planned extension of the platform will allow specific words or phrases within a dyadic encounter to trigger lightweight media modules running locally on the user’s device — generating or playing back music, visual art, or other media responses without any data leaving the user’s machine.
Planned initial modules include music generation from text using ABC notation and visual art generation. Longer term possibilities include XR — extended reality — environments for dyadic encounter.
Alongside these generative modules, the platform will maintain a small curated library of media held directly on the server — copies of carefully selected pages and files, cleared for rights at the point of curation. Holding copies rather than linking to live external URLs means the content cannot be mutated, taken down, or compromised by changes at the original source.
This category is for discussion of those extensions — technical approaches, creative possibilities, specific module ideas, and the broader question of how rich media can serve rather than overwhelm the reflective quality of the encounter. If you have expertise in generative art, music, creative coding, or XR your perspective is especially welcome.
The discussion here will hopefully complement the thinking set out at butterflydreaming.info/aspirations.html