ELYND

ELYND writes and voices a new guided meditation for each listener. During this hackathon we built two things on Meta's models. ELYND Worlds opens every meditation on a living painted world that fits it, and stays as a keepsake you can share as a 12-second living clip. ELYND Journeys turns thirty days into one story: you tell a guide what you'd like to grow, and ELYND writes one meditation for each day of your journey. Day one opens it, every day picks up from the last one and from how you said it went, every seventh day looks back on your week, a moment you named (a presentation, an exam) is rehearsed the day before, and day thirty looks back on the whole journey, from where you began to today. The journey has its own world, one climb painted once for every journey, and you move up it a step a day, from before dawn at the foot of the path to sunrise at the top. Its daily when-then plans follow implementation-intention research (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006: 94 tests, a medium-to-large effect). Of Meta's models, only Llama, the open model, reads your own words, in ELYND's own AWS account (Amazon Bedrock); Meta's API paints, cuts and checks pictures from non-personal scenes. Built with Llama. Until now every meditation looked the same: a voice on a dark screen, just when the mind is racing and you are asked to imagine a calm place. Now each world lives as such a place would: the water ripples, clouds drift, grass waves and now and then a few birds cross. It becomes a soft glow while your eyes are closed and returns in long silences. Most meditations open within seconds on one of more than 1,100 worlds an agent painted in advance with Meta's models, chosen by the place the meditation names or by how the listener feels. With personal worlds (opt-in, for every listener), Llama 3.3 reads the meditation in ELYND's own AWS and describes the place it needs without the listener's words; Muse Spark chooses from that, and when a meditation is about a place of your own that no library world shows (your grandmother's courtyard, her red watering can, your old dog asleep under the olive tree), the agent paints a new world for it in about a minute: designed by Muse Spark, painted by Muse Image, checked by Muse Spark Open, with SAM 3.1 finding what moves for the phone to bring to life. It is live in ELYND on the App Store and Google Play since 3 Nov; the video, the living gallery in any browser and the repository show it too. Pre-existing: the ELYND app, its meditation writer and its voices, which are not Meta models and not part of this entry (a journey's daily meditation is written by that writer from Llama's plan for the day). New this week: everything in the repository and the Worlds and Journeys features in the app. Depth for the journey walk: Depth Anything V2 Small (Yang et al., 2024, arXiv:2406.09414), Apache-2.0, run once offline; the app runs no model for the walk.