- This pack contains 83 VJ loops (90 GB)
Years ago I read a short story about morphing chrome on the horizon of the future. It was clearly visible as something approaching at great speed, yet something distant and vague, beckoning us with multifaceted promises, and sharp with vicious nightmares. I always thought it was an evocative metaphor fo...
2022-12-01 13:53:54 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 79 VJ loops (63 GB)
Get your head in the clouds. It all started with wanting to visualize an intense lightning storm. So I collected 178 real images of lightning and trained them on SG2. But when I rendered out some latent seed walk videos and something didn't look right about it, yet I couldn't put my finger on what it wa...
2022-11-01 12:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 51 VJ loops (29 GB)
Just in time for Halloween. Let's get freaky!
With the recent release of Stable Diffusion, I can finally create large image datasets from scratch much easier. I've done some experiments using DallE2 but it's just too much of a slog to manually save 4 images at a time, even if DallE2 follows text p...
2022-10-14 12:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 36 VJ loops (42 GB)
Sometimes when I see a person completely immersed in tech, I remember that our not so distant ancestor is the monkey.
For a while now I've been yearning for some type of AI tool to be released that would enable me to create my own images and then use it as a dataset for training StyleGAN2 or 3. So...
2022-10-01 14:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 414 VJ loops (123 GB)
More tech means more glitches! Growing up I experienced datamoshing visuals on accident while scrubbing an ASF video and then the motion vector info would get decoupled from the raster color info. And that fascination with odd glitches has stuck with me ever since.
In the past I’ve experimente...
2022-09-01 13:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 32 VJ loops (19 GB)
Electronic eyes are everywhere all the time. Everyone is algorithmically famous for 15 seconds. So I wanted to explore this aspect of our lives that has become commonplace. And how better to visualize this but to have an AI generate videos of security cameras and paparazzi?
I started off by collec...
2022-08-01 13:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 140 VJ loops (15 GB)
All of the feelings! I've been brewing on this idea of doing liquid simulations on various emoji. Emoji splatting against the wall, swirling down the drain, and smashing into each other. But after some experiments in Blender I just wasn't getting the look that I was hunting for. I wanted to focus on li...
2022-07-01 12:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 46 VJ loops (70 GB)
What would it look like to see the land change through the eons? After learning that any StyleGAN3 model can be used as a starting point for re-training, I started searching for models which people had freely shared for experimentation. I stumbled across an excellent model by 2022-06-01 12:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 50 VJ loops (27 GB)
Street art has this unique unchained feeling and futuristic shapes that I have long been inspired by. So I wondered if I could get some interesting results in training StyleGAN2 on a graffiti dataset. I started off by collecting 716 photos of graffiti and then cropped them each to be a square. And insta...
2022-05-01 11:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 88 VJ loops (26 GB)
Anagram and I have been collaborating on this pack since early 2021. I sent him the 'Surveillance Biz' videos and he used it as fodder for experimenting with his analog video synthesizer. It was interesting to see 3D animation brought into a video...
2022-04-01 04:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 86 VJ loops (28 GB)
When a robot falls asleep and dreams, what does it see? I think it would dream of growing into different modular shapes. So I set out to explore this concept.
I went the rabbit hole and spent so much time collecting, curating, and formatting images from various Gundam Wing websites. The "Dream" vi...
2022-03-01 08:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 39 VJ loops (52 GB)
I was in awe when I first saw the morphing faces generated by StyleGAN2. So I was excited when I realized that the extensively pre-trained models has been released for anyone to download and play with. The base videos were rendered using the FFHQ-1024x1024 model through StyleGAN2. I prefer the results fr...
2022-02-02 05:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 9 VJ loops (6 GB)
Welcome to the uncanny valley! Here we have a selection of human eyes so that you can watch your audience from the front stage. Finally the literal all seeing machine eye. These videos are the result of training StyleGAN3 using a dataset of 217 images.
Machine learning has long...
2022-01-21 13:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 26 VJ loops (17 GB)
I was recently watching the movie "Flight of the Navigator" and was soaking up the nostalgic awe of the futuristic spaceship that it so proudly features. I originally wanted to have this chrome spaceship darting all around the screen, but then I started finding tons of other spaceship models. So then the...
2021-10-05 04:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 69 VJ loops (114 GB)
Sometimes when I see a piece of news skyrocket, I imagine all the billions of people using a computer to digest the same thing. I had this idea of watching a bunch of mouse cursors flocking together and glitching out. So I found this great 2021-09-26 02:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 189 VJ loops (177 GB)
I have always been fascinated by cellular automata and the complex structures that emerge from very simple rules. I will often just play and tinker with the initial state to see how it affects the whole simulation. I have this wild idea that nanotech will someday utilize this stuff since things ...
2021-08-12 19:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 64 VJ loops (42 GB)
I was thinking about how an onstage musician is often performing directly in front of the visuals and so I wanted to create a 3D animation which embraces that fact. So I revisited the tech builder collection...
2021-07-15 02:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 168 VJ loops (28 GB)
Explosions are dazzling when they aren't terrifying. I've long wanted a collection of explosions for my own projects since they are the perfect crowd pleaser for a beat drop. I wasn't going for realism here but instead some exciting stylized explosions. In this pack I've created 7 different types of exp...
2021-07-01 20:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 60 VJ loops (52 GB)
I was catching up with Brenna Quirk and Simon Gurvets recently and they shared how they've been experimenting with some chess simulations after learning about the Trapped Knight problem from a Numberphile video. After see...
2021-05-19 22:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 21 VJ loops (39 GB)
Josiah Lowe and I have been collaborating on some still vector art lately and so we decided to see what could happen if I animated it. We agreed on a theme of an abstract jungle and see where it would lead us. Josiah created some fresh artwork in Illustrator, including a range of beautiful shapes t...
2021-05-02 03:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 18 VJ loops (7 GB)
I was thinking that an appropriate symbol for social media is the security camera. It's interesting how the symbol has transformed from passive surveillance into mass data collection. Tech spirit of our times.
In these experiments I wanted to explore the idea of security cameras that have com...
- This pack contains 43 VJ loops (74 GB)
Inspired by a dream I had a while back. I was flying in the pink sunset clouds and saw some birds soaring among the clouds and connected to their wings were long golden silk that was following the movement of the wings flapping. When I awoke the image was still clear in my mind.
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- This pack contains 35 VJ loops (41 GB)
These were some really fun experiments. Seeing as how much I've enjoyed the happy accidents of injecting Maya renders into NestDrop lately, I had the crazy idea of going the other direction... Injecting NestDrop recordings into Maya. I have been wanting to explore animated displac...
2021-02-13 18:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 18 VJ loops (29 GB)
Nauté is a friend of mine that has been working on simulation and visualization of infectious disease outbreaks. This data simulates the spread of a virtual pathogen with COVID-19-like epidemiological parameters in a ...
2021-02-13 18:06:11 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 10 VJ loops (10 GB)
Started off with some experiments using subsurface scattering to create a plastic material which light could shine through. The 'wires' and 'spinners' came about from wanting objects of different thicknesses to see how it reacted to the plastic material. The original models came f...
2021-02-13 18:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 30 VJ loops (29 GB)
For a long time I've wanted to revisit the Vector Recursion Workbench software collaboration I did with Nathan Williams. So I generated an SVG from the software and imported it into Maya. My first exper...
2021-02-13 18:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
- This pack contains 13 VJ loops (8 GB)
Who doesn't love some shiny crystals? I spent many years using Mental Ray, so to finally jump into a cutting edge render engine like Redshift was pretty incredible. Same ideas but with years of advancement, so the knowledge transferred easily.
So I was curious to explore the caust...
- This pack contains 12 VJ loops (12 GB)
I started off by playing with hundreds of arms moving out of phase with each other, kinda like the images of Hindu gods. But I ended up experimenting with animated UV maps at different speeds to create mesmerizing striped patterns and that took over the focus. It was particularly ...
2021-02-13 17:57:43 +0000 UTC View Post