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screenshot added by cce on 2023-04-10 03:49:25
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release date : april 2023
release party : Revision 2023
compo : 4k procedural gfx
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added on the 2023-04-10 03:49:25 by cce cce

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really nice
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 04:14:24 by blackle blackle
the purpose of this intro should be come clear if you have a look at the info file before commenting

but i also like the visual result itself too :)
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 04:17:14 by noby noby
Very interesting technique.
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 04:33:15 by ham ham
Nice
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 11:32:27 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
Yeah so this is an experiment with Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) as a style transfer filter. The idea is to pack a very small neural network in a shader and run that iteratively to change the raymarched picture to match some target style. In this case there are two in a sequence and the image is upscaled 2x with a bilinear filter inbetween to enlarge the "receptive field" of the latter filter.

It wasn't a complete success because the effect had to be really subtle to work at all but I think it just crossed the threshold from the "filtered rendering" to the "amateurish painting" side. I learned a lot when working on this :)

I used and studied these two Alexander Mordvintsev's ShaderToy examples: 1, 2, the respective Jupyter notebook, and their paper that explains what's going on.

I'm planning to write a bit more about this and release all my code later.
added on the 2023-04-10 11:33:36 by cce cce
Oh and the zip includes an animated version of the piece that shows you the intermediate cellular automaton steps in their full latent space glory :)
added on the 2023-04-10 11:38:54 by cce cce
interesting idea and just looks nice
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 13:22:14 by wrighter wrighter
The filter really makes a difference. unique looks. Would be cool to see this concept developed further.
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 20:26:46 by Preacher Preacher
cool filter look
added on the 2023-04-10 20:34:52 by psenough psenough
Interessing technique!
Looking forward for your article.
rulez added on the 2023-04-10 21:25:43 by Anat Anat
I really liked the look of this one.
rulez added on the 2023-04-11 16:41:42 by neon neon
EIA!
rulez added on the 2023-04-11 17:57:35 by SiR SiR
I really like the concept and I'm impressed by how much effort went into this entry. It's a shame the audience wasn't aware of all this magic during the compo, I'm sure the entry would have scored higher otherwise (maybe a more descriptive info slide would have helped)

Either way, I haven't seen a 4k exe gfx pull off the "liminal space" aesthetic quite as well as this one, very nice
rulez added on the 2023-04-11 22:12:25 by slerpy slerpy
The picture itself didn't really work for me, but thumbs up for the cool idea.
rulez added on the 2023-04-11 22:13:59 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
what noby said (!)
i wonder on what range of motives this can effectively work
rulez added on the 2023-04-11 22:18:25 by HellMood HellMood
The style looks hell looking good, and the tech, I love this kind of exploration.
Looking forward to the write-up!
rulez added on the 2023-04-12 00:45:57 by 0b5vr 0b5vr
I didn't understand at all what happened here when you explained it on the IRC channel, but the comments here and the infofile make it much clearer. The fullres image is also more or less required to be able to appreciate the effect.

I also tried to look at the _progressive.exe, but it refuses to run on my work computer and crashes with a TDR OpenGL driver error.
rulez added on the 2023-04-12 09:37:45 by Warma Warma
Good
rulez added on the 2023-04-12 10:43:58 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
added on the 2023-04-16 15:38:34 by cce cce
Beautiful.
rulez added on the 2023-04-16 16:57:57 by neoneye neoneye
as said, this particular image certainly did no justify the amount of effort that went to it, but the example images in the repo look far more promising to me :) maybe it's the combination of yellow(ish) and brown here that looks a bit ugly to me. nevertheless, as always, I tend to downplay the accomplishments of AI until they are so awesome that I cannot simply downplay them anymore... so, exploring this path could eventually lead to great results
rulez added on the 2023-04-17 07:47:47 by pestis pestis
I actually like the "ugly" colors and simple geometry; adds to the "classical oil painting" vibe, and it was quite apparent that it's more than just a noisy filter in the compo :)

I'm a cce fanboy because of these experimental explorations.
rulez added on the 2023-04-17 11:51:06 by ferris ferris
Kudos for the research and the effort of fitting it all in 4K - I see there tremendous potential.

Keeping fingers crossed for future experiments, keep it up!
rulez added on the 2023-04-19 12:31:02 by klos klos
Very cool considering the concept! Grats!
rulez added on the 2023-04-20 16:31:39 by tifeco tifeco
giorgio de chirico vibes, super cool
rulez added on the 2024-11-27 20:35:06 by stijn stijn
Looks a bit like a Dali.
rulez added on the 2024-11-27 21:48:18 by gaspode gaspode

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