visualisation, inventiones
experiments
Olimpia (2024) ‘Olimpia’ is a short film inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s celebrated short-story ‘Der Sandmann’ (c.1816-17) – re-imagined from the point of view of Olimpia, the automaton that becomes the love-object of the protagonist. Hoffman’s story prefigures the genre of ‘weird fiction’ in literature, an early example that explores the...
With the ongoing improvement in AI and machine learning models, as well as adaptive, programmable workflows in environments like Python/Jupyter, ComfyUI, Blender and Unreal Engine, it is a productive time to look at new approaches in heritage visualisation and digital conservation. Over the last 20+ years I have accumulated an...
These mountains have always been a special place for me – one of my existential places in the world. They’re not especially high, nor extensive, but they are ancient and, as far as I know, poorly understood from a geological perspective. Something to investigate. They emerge abruptly, mysteriously, from the...
This page will host my experiments with Gaussian-splatting pipelines. I finally found some time to get round to setting up the environment – pretty straight-forward stuff – and a lot of emergent integrations that are worth exploring. H.M.S. Endurance My first test is based on the H.M.S. Endurance NeRF work...
You can visit Planet Plop here. It’s just a sketch at this stage and will evolve over time. Music and songs are created in collaboration with my friend Glenn Rogers. From my perspective, I’m using it to explore and develop an emergent array of AI tools and techniques that can...
It’s exciting times for working with Large Language models for computer programming – especially for generalists like me who work across a range of platforms, languages and task-spaces that are often not very conversant with each other. Plus I am a ‘lazy’ self-taught programmer – there is far too much...
Playable Earth :: ANAT Bespoke Disrupting the status quo of Earth Observation Visualisation through immersion and interaction. Playable Earth is an ANAT Bespoke Residency in partnership with Swinburne University. The project aims to explore novel ways of visualising and interacting with satellite-originated Earth observation data and analytics using modern game development environments....
Ghost Halls is an experimental dream-horror movie by Peter Morse (Vision+Text) and Glenn Rogers (Music), using a combination of AI systems (Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, Replica Studio, Audio2Face), Unreal Engine and digital composition. This is a first-step experiment in developing an approach/workflow to explore a kind of Lovecraftian/Borgesian horror exploring AI-generated...
The release of NVIDIA’s Instant NeRF is a fantastic opportunity to explore the technology’s applications for cultural heritage visualization. There is, of course, a lot of hype about it and its utility for ‘ushering in the metaverse’ – I would take this with several large grains of salt, as the...
One of the challenges of creating ‘beliveable’ Metahumans for VMI has been striking a fine balance between creating CG surrogates for our scientists – that they are more-or-less happy with – and avoiding stereotypes and cliches. It is not immediately apparent that the Metahuman interface sets out to avoid this,...
