Waiting for the Storm

Quite literally. We'll have a better idea what is in store for us tomorrow.

The image is from a recent nightly gallery show experimental run. Using self mutating Studio Artist effects. Working automatically off of a folder of random imagery.

Elephant Behind the Curtain

Another stream grab from the middle of a generative gallery show run. From my nightly experiments. Every time i watch it do it's magic, i think of some new things to add to it. I think the real trick is to figure out how to automatically make it keep itself busy. Because it's easy to be lazy now with how you configure it. Continuing to fall into the same patterns, because you are too lazy to setup new ones. So it should be able to help you do that as well. Another step in the evolution of artificial visual creativity.

Power Station

Some ideas that look like coming from a delirium in the dreaming room, sometimes trigger new possibilities. Thanks for that tip Alex. Words to live by.

Another gallery show automatic generative image creation process experiment. Working with a custom folder of new MSG presets based around the new quilt pattern generator processors. And there are quite a few of them to choose form now. I hand edited the factory MSG presets we put together so that this custom folder of modified ones doesn't set any fixed background,  but just overlays the generated geometric patterns on top of the existing canvas. Which is from the previous gallery show cycle. Also using the usual auto mask and custom start and end cycle processing i've been using in all of these recent experiments.

FireDancer at Dusk

Trying to break out of my lazy patterns by using some new custom preset folders as a part of my nightly generative gallery show experiments. Lazyness being a problem for all of us i think in many ways. It's easy to stick with old patterns that work, rather than putting the effort into trying something new.

So this image was grabbed from the output stream of a mutate current factory preset folder. That factory preset category folder contained a set of new MSG presets i put together recently based on some of the different Quilt pattern generators processors we've been working to add to MSG. Those self-stacking auto-quilt geometric patterns were auto-masked based on mutating 'surprise me' mask effects based on the current source image.

The source imagery was randomly chosen from a folder of Shutterstock images we recently purchased. And i was flipping around different custom favorites folders for the start and end cycle processing. The end cycle was using a set of custom finishing presets. Things like contrast boost and auto-sharpening effects, usually multi-ocatve ones based on PASeqs. Not totally sure about the start cycle preset used for this specific image, but i think it was based on geometric transformations.

Like all of this recent post series of gallery show images, the actual image build up is a generative process that takes place over several different gallery show cycles. I really need to add auto mutation options to the start and end cycle processing. Although you can kind of get that now by using temporal generators if they are MSG presets. You choose uniform random as the TG for the parameters you want to self-mutate. So that's a cheater way to do it using existing features. Like so many things in Studio Artist, there is usually already a way to do if you  think about it a little bit, and are willing to put the time into make it happen. Put the time in means doing the TG modulation editing to the MSG processor parameters in this particular case.

Note to Self: Maybe we should have an automatic meta edit to do that kind of manual editing i described above as well (turn on TG modulation in all of the parameters in a MSG preset with a single command). Would have made setting this whole thing up way quicker.

EBook Reader Before Bed

Not really, but it reminds me of someone reading using an iPad. Like i usually do before falling asleep every night. Automatically generated using gallery show.

Twin Engines

More tribute images to the memory of Stan Brakhage. Working with the oil rig pump imagery that so inspired me when he used it in some of his experimental films i first saw years ago. A lot of those films dealt with exploring symmetry in imagery in addition to repetition of motion.

The approach used to make this is the same sort of generative gallery show processing i've been focused on lately. So using a folder of random oil rig imagery. And self mutating gallery show techniques. In association with additional hand picked preset folders for start and end cycle processing. And self-adapting mutating masks for the gallery show technique effects derived off of the current randomly selected source image. So the effects buildup over time in the gallery show output stream, which records a generative image creation process that is essentially fully automatic and autonomous once it is defined and set into motion..

Dynamic Repetition

Another random oil rig imagery gallery show experiment. Using self-mutating paint presets along with gallery show cycle canvas feedback to the next gallery show source image as well. So the title could refer to the imagery i'm working with, or to the process used to create this particular image.