DesignSpace
Prototype app by Thomas Van Bouwel is an urban planning / architecture design tool for virtual reality:
DesignSpace is a prototype design tool for the HTC Vive for urban designers and architects, first developed during the 2016 AEC Hackathon in London. The tool demonstrates how you could load in and position reference images, work at scale, add simple block volumes, and sketch directly on the model.
NYC Flow
Visual experiment from Danil Krivoruchko applies neural net style transfer to slow motion shots around New York city:
NYC FLOW is an exploration of video processing technics introduced by neural-style code.
Update [21/07/16]: Here is what the original footage looks like:
… and here is the code to produce this method of videos: https://github.com/manuelruder/artistic-videos
China: A Prisma Tale
Visual experiment from District 7 combines timelapse shots taken in China and painstakingly processes each individual frame with style transfer photo app Prisma:
Each frame of the 1 minute and 20 second video had to be processed via the Prisma App which took almost 80 hours to complete. The processing/rendering was at the mercy of the servers. Most of the project had to be completed between 11pm and 4am EST because the app would freeze or shutdown due to overloaded serves or too many users on at the same time.
Thankfully the algorithm used to create the painting-like scene(s) was very consistent when it came to processing the images. The total video was approximately 2500 frames and took a bit of ingenuity to stitch together.
By the end of the project (which took around 5 days to produce) my fingers were numb and eyes bloodshot. The worst part was the constant repetition of taking the photo, processing the photo, moving 1 frame forward, and then saving the image. Sometimes I would forget to do a step and have to start over completely. It was mind-numbing work to say the least!
the street finds its own uses
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains—cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very process of modeling. It consumes ever-more computational resources, bogs itself down with endless recursion and irrelevant simulations. Like the parasitic DNA that accretes in every natural genome, it persists and proliferates and produces nothing but itself. Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I.”
– Peter Watts, Blindsight
more like a neurochemical cron job amirite
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Makes you wonder if the normalization/resurgence of MDMA and psychedelic use in youth culture’s private life is a means of making up for
a) losses in empathy incurred by a life online
b) a desire to see *underneath* the background noise/detritus of late-stage capitalism
Not to ignore the utter cannibalization of stimulants (amphetamines), benzodiazepines, and opiates by Big Pharma, for use by young professionals to inoculate them from the existential drudgery of modern working life
Tilt and balance.
collaboration with Automata Graphics