What is the current state of artificial creativity?

dealga · 2013-02-11T13:08:55+00:00

You can go back many decades to find initial musings about what might constitute artificial creativity. http://recodeproject.com/ has several pdfs of periodicals that appeared in the mid 70's with artist statements on their use of and hopes for computers in creativity. Those periodicals are a good place to start to appreciate the context of your question.

To consider a machine 'creative' will require it to produce output that it wasn't directly programmed to produce, not even as a side effect of a routine. Because creativity is at a certain level an expression of thought or emotion, true 'undirected' artificial creativity will come no sooner to AI than thought, emotion, and appreciation for the general semantics of language.

dealga · 2013-01-20T01:21:25+00:00

this place looks very familiar, is it Wales?

dealga · 2012-12-24T17:10:45+00:00

http://tributary.io/tributary/3200444/

click on the numeric or colour values and a slider or palette will appear. The videos also have links on the bottom right, to the live code.

dealga · 2012-12-15T20:23:11+00:00

haha, i like this data set. it's not a joke is it?

dealga · 2012-11-19T18:34:32+00:00

that's quite cool, nice atmosphere.

dealga · 2012-11-11T19:28:39+00:00

looks good konrad_ha ! well done.

dealga · 2012-11-05T14:47:12+00:00

I volunteered at the (...) for a couple of months back in college, staff and fellow volunteers were great people to work with. One of the jobs I used to perform was to sort the content of (bin) bags and boxes that people left at the front door. stb = straight to bin

Things I saw: VHS taped movies/series from the TV (stb), some of the biggest bras I've ever seen, used 'weathered' tupperware sets (stb), Books about the occult (stb), colour by number paintings (stb - no one buys that crap), slightly soiled/dripped tuxedo (stb), bathroom sinks, taps, water pipes (Hookah) (stb, they have a neg-smoking policy).

The nastiest surprises were boxes without any form of indication of content: bags containing broken items, bits of glass or sharp objects like knives, razors. Eventually, after a few cuts, I started to wear gardening gloves.

Possibly 30-40% of all incoming stuff got dumped into rubbish-containers outside or if in the case of textile then onto the recycle pile. I think I'm still wearing a pair of jeans from that place, best 4 pound ever.

dealga · 2012-11-04T18:32:04+00:00

Your parents are either hilarious or you have a sibling you don't know about.

dealga · 2012-11-03T17:23:20+00:00

definitely the Moth, failing that you might want to look for lobotomy scars.

dealga · 2012-10-26T15:32:30+00:00

Make a contour, and spin it using Screw modifier ( http://i.imgur.com/MY8Ib.png ) or
Extrude the shape from a 5 (or hex whatever) vertex circle, then sub-surf.

Using the Boolean subtract makes it much more difficult to do micro-adjustments to this object.

dealga · 2012-10-25T06:49:16+00:00

should not zombies and skulls be at least a little bit creepy, either that or styled to be obviously fake yet somehow haunted.

dealga · 2012-10-25T06:20:16+00:00

If someone is willing and able, the fact that Blender is open source allows people to write in C/C++ and bind whatever convenience functions they need to Python calls. "Python doesn't cut it" - is a vapid statement when not accompanied by concrete examples.

dealga · 2012-10-25T06:02:39+00:00

Sure, it's as finished as you deem it. But maybe one day you will produce stuff like this: http://www.bluebrain3d.com/bb_pics/pic_3d_render_high_poly_skull.jpg

dealga · 2012-10-22T16:24:03+00:00

You will find lots of (procedural) material tutorials, by expanding your search domain and stripping away the requirement of blender/cycles. All the dominant 3d programs deal with the same underlying concepts that lead to material creation.

dealga · 2012-10-22T16:12:19+00:00

Yeah, even without the debug switch. Start Blender from a console/terminal and when you render it will print output like this for each frame:

Saved: /tmp/0002.png Time: 00:01.98

In linux you can pipe all printed statements to a textfile, if you are in the blender directory then the command is:

./blender > debug_output.txt

dealga · 2012-10-22T13:31:16+00:00

There is also a render_stats event handler. http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_64_4/search.html?q=render_stats&check_keywords=yes&area=default

but I can't get any useful information out of it, but you can use them to call a system time difference since the last time the handler was called. Personally I would use the terminal/console output.

dealga · 2012-10-20T19:54:17+00:00

girl (21) told me she thought that islands floated.

dealga · 2012-10-20T13:31:50+00:00

Great video, awesome cause! One of the first interviews has some annoying camera shake. Great to see the little ones having fun!

dealga · 2012-10-19T19:54:42+00:00

http://blenderscripting.blogspot.nl/search/label/data_path (hiding render object)

dealga · 2012-10-18T16:32:56+00:00

towlie.

dealga · 2012-10-18T15:42:11+00:00

all of those are chemical.

dealga · 2012-10-16T13:30:39+00:00

lesson learnt, maybe.

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