A depository for John Dalton's personal artwork. Studio Artist, MSG, procedural art, WMF, digital painting, image processing, human vision, digital art, slit scan, photo mosaic, artistic software, video effects, computer painting, fractals, generative drawing, paint animation, halftoning, video effects, photo manipulation, modular visual synthesis, auto-rotoscoping, directed evolution, computational creativity, artificial intelligence, generative ai, style transfer, latent diffusion
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Recombination Engine
Grab from a gallery show run that uses a single PASeq preset to build an infinite variety of different vector face images using a few image folder brushes for the different facial parts. Put this simple preset together as an example for the folks interested in making NFTs in Studio Artist.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Traveling Salesman Sketch Animation Experiment
Studio Artist V5.5 has a lot of different features one can use to build TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) sketch effects. I setup a Paint Action Sequence (PASeq) to automatically build a single bezier path TSP Sketch of a series of key-framed movies in a Transition Context. I then used another Studio Artist feature to automatically derive colored regions (the Flat Color Regionize IpOp effects) while keyframe interpolating the single bezier curve sketch effects over time. And this is what i got. Super easy to try experiments like this in Studio Artist.
The Chain of Life
Grabbed this last night as it flashed by during gallery show automated testing of Studio Artist V5.5.5.
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Escape from the Past
Turning the worlds most boring stock photo into something way more interesting in Studio Artist V5.5.5 using a totally automatic generative ai paint process in gallery show.
Behold the Light
I'm using a folder of 6 custom MSG presets that use 2 color palettes and a threshold modulator to dual colorize the input to the presets. I setup gallery show to use this folder for the MSG asset location. I then setup the paint generative preferences in gallery show to generative build a MSG Brush Load paint effect, one that uses bezier paths for painting derived off of a generative vectorizer effect.
The style transfer is coming from gallery show auto-generating color palettes and also visual attribute modulating the generative vectorizer effects that generate the paint paths.
The source for this is also the worlds most boring stock photo.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Monday, September 13, 2021
Clowning a Round
Last minute Studio Artist V5.5.5 stress test marathon / death march gallery show grab. Almost there...
Friday, September 10, 2021
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Focus in
Running automated stress testing of Studio Artist V5.5.5 generative paint features, trying to dial in that final build while twisting the brain to try out new combinations from the billions of generative paint preference permutations.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Gallery Show Dream Sequence
Shows off a Studio Artist V5.5.5 gallery show run in all of its gory detail, captured into an open image stream using the Write on Op End write flag. The paint is generative MSG derived, the source is generative data augmented. I just let it run and recorded the results into the image stream folder as frame images, then used a Transition Context to load them all in and animate output to a movie file.
The audio backing is the last track (Scat) off of the Xenon Light Annihilation cd.
Forbidden Rendezvous
Hunting the elusive style background texture generative paint preference crash issue i discovered last night testing what i thought was the final Studio Artist V5.5.5 build. So back to the debug grind mill again this morning for another slog day of code grinding and stack crawling (oh joy). That generative paint preference auto-configures the paint synthesizer background texture to use an image grabbed from the current loaded style (including the data augmentations you have selected). Of course the power went out for hours here last night right after i discovered this issue, shutting down all of the code debug machines.
Monday, September 6, 2021
I'm on a Plane
Last minute testing of Studio Artist V5.5.5. Running gallery show with random bezier path method draw option and a soft nib clip and finesse nib generative preference, no start or end cycle processing, no auto-masking.