Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe scrolling ticker substrate is a ring suspended from the top of the hyperboloid tower. The ring will be made up of 3 6″ x 16 ft. sections of 1/8″ Masonite. Each section is made up of four pieces of 6″ x 8 ft. Masonite lapped together and secured by sets of 4 small bots … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMidway up the structure, we need to have a platform to support the power systems. This platform can also stiffen the structure serving transfer tension and compression forces around the helix. I wanted it to be able to support several hundred lbs. of weight that a person and a generator might add up to. At … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur first design for the structure called for 2″ diameter bamboo poles arranged in a helix pattern to form a 14 ft. hyperboloid tower. Each pole was going to be made up of two 8ft. pieces of bamboo cane coupled by using a two-foot 1″ round dowel inserted parallel through the middle of the cane. … Read more
Reading Time: 10 minutesI had put together a list of iconic couples, and my goal was to come up with prompts and processes to get good images where our likenesses were substituted into the scene. One significant departure from my previous trials is that I have started incorporating negative prompts into the renderings.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTLDR; Tried to create an holiday card from AI-generated images. Didn’t work out yet.
Reading Time: 8 minutesMy instagram feed is full of AI generated self-portraits. Often surprising and evocative, a passel of sites have quickly spun apps which let people stylize a headshot. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. I have been doing a deeper dive into the world of generative art. This is my four experiment . Unlike the online apps, which stylize a single image, I have diving deeply into Stable Diffusion to create a model that can generate images of multiple specific people in a wide range of scenes.
Reading Time: 11 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. What happens when you train the AI image generator on hundreds of snapshots?
Reading Time: 8 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. You can do this yourself. It is free and easy on an ordinary computer.
Reading Time: 8 minutesAI generated faces look amazingly real but are entirely synthetic. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. Others present the format and perspective and scale of common art forms like character design and movie concept art. The cliché is, “I don’t know what art is, but I know it when I see it.” With AI generated images, people are seeing it a whole lot of images they like. But is it really art? I tried creating a self-portrait to answer the question.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI think it is only a matter of time until we see more Pinterest snark. The form has already been cast by sites like authors of catalog living and unhappyhipsters.com. Pinterest should be the great canvas where this mode of unadulterated snark might find it purest expression. I tried it. It’s hard. These two are … Read more