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Proud to share this collaboration with @hiatusmusic for the video of his new single, Arrival!
Incredible, very collaborative process creating visuals from a custom model + intentional edits through latent space.
here:
More on our process in thread
Incredible, very collaborative process creating visuals from a custom model + intentional edits through latent space.
here:More on our process in thread
Inspired by the words and personal meaning of Rumi's poem, The Guest House, we developed a model based on a dataset of micro and macro imagery of cells, galaxies and other forms representing both the building blocks of humanity and it's own place in the universe. Sample stills:
Cyrus was able to create intentional edits based on a library of thousands of generated star and cell images and their associated NumPy arrays. Thanks, as always, to @memotv for the inspiration and his 2018 @NeurIPSConf paper, Deep Meditations.
Example stills edit sequence:
Example stills edit sequence:
We initially explored using stochastic weight averaging to blend a cell/micro model with a star/macro model. Ultimately used a model trained on both datasets concurrently.
This interpolation video shows:
Left: cell model
Middle: cell/stars blended model
Right: stars model
This interpolation video shows:
Left: cell model
Middle: cell/stars blended model
Right: stars model
Sincere thanks to Cyrus ( @hiatusmusic) for the beautiful music, for being so open to exploring this process, and sharing a curiosity with me about what generative visuals can mean! I learned a lot and it was a true pleasure!
More on my site: http://nathanshipley.com/gan
More on my site: http://nathanshipley.com/gan
