ImagePlot, “vintage” 2010s tool for image visualization, is back, free

“Gramps, tell us the story again!” Well, young’n, before LLMs and generative AI, we were really excited about making big clouds of dots using statistical techniques for visualization. And actually, it’s still cool — and runs free, locally, in your browser. Lev Manovich and team have brought back ImagePlot, and in a moment, it transforms any folder of images into a visualization.

With AI and GPUs, Vadim Epstein creates an engrossing, fragmented mirror

AI and GPU tricks, with their rigid rigorous demands, can often come out as carbon copy clones. Not so in the work of Vadim Epstein, an artist and theoretical physicist based in Moscow. In his hands, machine learning becomes painterly.

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2019

Vuo in Beta: A New Hope for Visual Development? [Resources]

So, without a line of code, you want to make something new, visually. You’ve got Max, you’ve got Pd, you’ve got vvvv. But for quickly cooking up generative visuals, dynamic interaction, live animation, and more from a clean slate, the other option had been Apple’s Quartz Composer, a tool that has lost a lot of […]

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2013