KARYN EASTON
Nov 05
by Karyn in Ai, Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Thoughts and Background

Research Paper 3 – Thoughts, Background and Final Version That’s it – no more!  Yesterday and today became the ‘final straw’ with my research paper!  Why? Because yesterday my ‘dying’ on its ‘last legs’ MacBook Pro decided that it was going to literally lose all of my research papers and drafts.  I know it’s somewhat unbelievable but this actually happened! Months of hard work seemed to have disappeared in front of my eyes.  The files were no longer there!  I tried opening programs that I had used to construct the last version of my paper, but it was always the same message ‘File cannot be found’. I even convinced my self that there was some evil hacker trying to sabotage my work, that’s how upset I was.  At one point I even thought I must be having a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. As I had been editing the document in Adobe’s PDF editing program I thought to myself, ‘Ha’ there will be a copy stored in Adobe’s creative cloud.  So, feeling somewhat smug, I looked at my recent documents there, only to discover that on opening my research paper it gave an error message saying ‘bad […]
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Sep 20
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Problem Solving, Research, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Problem Solving, Research, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Deeper Meaning

How to Find Meaning? – Having recently finished 21 days of an augmented reality investigation followed by another 21 days of research paper investigation and compilation, I’m feeling somewhat down.  I think that primarily it is due to my investigations into AI generated art.  The further I dig into this, the more depressed I become.  I’m sure this is just a transient phase.  Why am I so sad?  It’s because over the years I learnt so much about photography.  I collected a wealth of knowledge on this subject especially because each year I tried to present my students with increasingly technically challenging workshops.  I was proud that I was able to replicate pretty much any style of photography from slow shutter work to speed shooting, star trails to zoom burst, macro photography to physiograms. I felt I had reached the pinnacle when I managed to work out the technique that Michael Jackson (the photographer not the pop singer), uses to make his ethereal Luminograms.  Even today colleagues are badgering me to give up that secret which I flatly refuse.  It’s so beautifully simple yet complex at the same time and I nailed it! However, with the advent of AI art […]
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Nov 08
by Karyn in Artists, Collaborations, Experimentation, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Opportunities, Problem Solving, Research, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Artists, Collaborations, Experimentation, Ideas, My Learning, my work, opportunities, Problem Solving, Research, Timelapse, Videos

Blender – Who Knew?

Using Blender to Simulate Chladni Patterns – In order to make a successful Chladni Pattern, it is important to generate a strong tone.  Where fingers are placed on the plate is also crucial.  I have discovered that to produce a tone and beautiful pattern is not a quick or easy process.  It takes both practice and patience.  Jokingly, I feel that at the end of this process, I may not have great Chladni patterns, but I’ll probably manage a grade 8 in the violin! Joking aside, this is a real and fundamental problem that I need to solve in order to move forward.  In order to help me work with my bow and plate I looked for a number of YouTube tutorials of which there were a few.  The people in the videos made the bowing and Chladni pattern generation look so easy! I spoke to the maker of my kit and he explained that actually it’s not that easy and practice and patience makes perfect.  Below are a couple of videos where pattern generation is made to look really simple.   Chladni Plate with Violin Bow   Chladni Patterns – Aluminium Plate and Violin Bow   Time is Not […]
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Oct 23
by Karyn in Experimentation, My Learning, My Work, Research, Videos 0 comments tags: My Learning, my work, Research, threats, Videos

Generative Art Tutorial

Filling in Time – I was looking forward to putting together a video of of the work I was doing yesterday. Unfortunately the transfer of files from PC to MAC took longer than anticipated. Therefore, I decided to use this time productively to follow another Touch Designer software tutorial.  This one only took me around 3 hours to complete. However, the results were quite beautiful.  The imagery that is being produced has little or no bearing on my work.  The imagery is merely a byproduct of my software learning process.  My intention is to eventually use this software to produce my own generative art using my own images.  However for now I continue to run up the steep learning curve. the video below is the result of my learning journey from the latest tutorial that I followed.  As I have tweaked some of the parameters the imagery generated is all mine but I still need to work on my understanding of networks.  I’ve included a short video of my network for illustrative purposes.   Particles in Motion – Generative Art Using Touch Designer Software Here is the result from the tutorial.  I find the fluid motion of the particles quite […]
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