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GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant
The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights.
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Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton’s sound tools
Max 9 is available today, bringing benefits for casual tinkerers and hardcore devs alike. There’s more code, more performance, more livecoding, more visual powers, and – one more thing: you get the building blocks Ableton uses for sound.
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.
Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2022
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Bespoke visual noise is the next domain for Robert Henke – so let’s revisit Perlin, anyway
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2022
DIY + Unusual Motion Tech
The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk
Peter Kirn - November 30, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Tech
The entire BlueLab plug-in line is now free, full of unique visualization and processing tools
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2021
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