for the last year or so i’ve been obsessed with the neural style transfer algorithm. in this video i break-down how i’ve been making my recent renders. all the files from the above video can be found here: 005.zip.
my god, it’s full of stars
not too long ago an old friend sent me a link to the starry expanse project. i am blown away. these guys are rebuilding riven lovingly, frame by frame, from scratch. i cannot possibly be more honored and humbled. thank you guys. you are beyond awesome. to show my appreciation and lend a virtual hand […]
BOO!
just in time for halloween. create your own ghost simulator and scare the neighborhood kids. and also learn a wee bit of programming. thank you to Noah who is awesome.
joy!
when I was bored as a kid, i would turn on PBS to watch their painting shows. and their cooking shows. and their carpentry shows. I loved watching people making things. starting from nothing and ending with something. pure creation. today i’m trying to recreate that magic. my skill is computer programming. computers make beautiful […]
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yet more nutty topics in my ongoing series on computational art. this time we switch to virtual “skin” and look at rendering. files available here. previous sessions 001 and 002.
blending into the background
i had a pretty positive response to my node last week – so here’s another. qChameleon lets you steal the coloring of your neighbors. PS: take my class to learn how to make your own nodes.
feeling displaced
as a part of the class i teach – i wrote a maya node which is fairly useful to the unwashed masses. so here you go: qDisplacement.
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our second session has come and gone, somewhat successfully i think – things always go better when your audience is armed. we covered implicit surfaces, renderman/pixie, displacement shaders, and more of my wacky cellular simulation. the turnout was pretty good too. if you’d like to attend the next one, or just receive updates, drop me […]
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once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, i taught a class called “computational art”. today, thanks to the miracle of the interwebs, i am able to teach once again. (be warned, the words “class” and “teach” here are used in the loosest possible sense.) here is my first attempt – an exploration […]