Prototype SOL Diptych
This is the first post in the new SOL production category. This is because the SOL project has moved beyond the Dreaming Machine projects and I’ve decided to look at it as a different artwork. I’ve had...
View Article49×49 SOL Diptych
This test is made up of 2401 images. The capture duration was about 2.5 hours, with a 500ms settle between frames. Luckily this worked out from centre, but later I realized that (a) spirals can only do...
View Article53×53 Diptych (Manual Settings)
This is the third diptych prototype. I’ve changed the camera mode from auto white-balance and exposure to manual. The SOM in this case is much stronger, I suppose due to the colour constancy between...
View ArticleVideo of Linear Colour Field Sequence
The following is a 4k video of a portion of the colour field sequence previously posted.
View ArticleCollage and Video from New Colour Field Sequence
From the previous posts, I’ve restricted the range of neighborhood sizes from 1-170 to 1-40 in the following image and video. The more gradual increase of neighborhood size increases the cohesion of...
View ArticleMock-up Using New Colour Field Sequence
Following is a mock-up of my current intention for the final image using the most recently posted collage of the new colour field sequence blended with the original pano.
View ArticleNeighbourhood Sequence Ranging from 1-30
In the following images (raw on top, original overlap on bottom) I used a smaller range of neighbhourhood sizes compared to the previous post (1-30). I was hoping the buildings would be less...
View ArticleMock-up with Offset
In this version, there is an offset applied such that the neighbourhood size only starts increasing at the horizon, rather than the bottom of the image. A mock-up blended with the original image is...
View ArticleMultiple Neighbourhood Sizes in a Single Map
Thanks to Daniel Frenzel, ANNetGPGPU now supports setting different neighbourhood sizes in a single network. This means I will no longer have to generate a different source and data file for each...
View ArticleRandom vs Averaged Seed Structure on Top Row
Seed data on top row is random: Seed data on top row is calculated from the average of the segments in each column: I wanted to follow up on some of the conceptual aspects I touched on in my previous...
View ArticleMax Neighbourhood Size and Averaged Top Row
After making the decision to seed the top row with averaged values I executed a few runs using a larger network (20px for each SOM cell) and a range of maximum neighbourhood sizes (10, 50, 100, 500,...
View ArticleExponential vs Linear
The following images show exponential and linear (respectively) increases of neighbourhood size where the maximum neighbourhood size at the top is the same (1600). They don’t seem all that...
View ArticleInitial Designs
Based on the explorations up to this point, I wanted to post some initial designs using the Gaussian renderer and blending with the original panorama at a more carefully specified horizon. The...
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