Eye-popping TouchDesigner techniques with noise, AI, point clouds, and more

It must be back-to-school season because there’s a superb crop of new TouchDesigner tutorials ready. Best of all, a couple of these start with real basics, which is good not only for beginners but also for refining your skills from the ground up. Get those CHOPs up.

Go watch this deep dive on AI-generated textures – what works, what doesn’t

Machine learning isn’t necessarily always going to be about typing a prompt and letting the machine do the work. There are far subtler possibilities in generating tiles – and even how tiles are grafted together for seamless materials. Here’s a great deep dive into that topic.

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2024

What AI can’t do – parody – and why not

I was pondering what it was that bothered me so much about the Suno and Udio case. My pride as a composer? Erm, no. Fear of AI? Copy-pasting Abba lyrics, uh, not really. No, it’s something else…

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2024

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