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Is nature an instrument? (AI Generated Music Sync)
🕑 Added 2022-03-02 15:28:19 +0000 UTCI fell in love with AI generated landscapes recently. Although this tool is only meant for images, I decided to see if making a cohesive video was possible. Choosing which parts of the landscape would represent different parts of the beat was a lot of fun! Maintaining continuity from one frame to another is challenging, but after much trial and error, I've found that minimizing the motion of the horizon maximizes cohesion between frames.
Here is a link to the web version if you'd like to try it yourself! http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/
Quick explanation of my process for this project:
1. Animate segmentation maps in sync with music in After Effects.
2. Export this animation as a series of images.
3. Convert the image sequence into landscape photos via GauGan2.
I was able to automate the conversion process. My first attempt used AHK to move my mouse and click to upload the correct image, convert, download, and name. This was sketchy and actually crashed my chrome browser somehow (I think due to downloading so many images and they were all being cached?). Attempt two was to run it locally. Unfortunately, the NVIDIA Canvas downloadable software doesn't allow png segmentation maps as input (only .can files). My final solution works by sending images directly to the gaugan.org server via python. If you're interested in trying out something like this, I'll make the script I used available for download on this post.
Resources:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-demos/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/01/what-is-gaugan-ai-art-demo/
Music Credit:
Track: Lost Sky - Vision [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
Watch: https://youtu.be/7RU1l8GtGOc
Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/VisionID
Shoutout to Winkey for giving me the idea to make this Bob Ross themed.
Comments
Nat J
wooo hoo! I might add this script to my art machine
Winkle Dink Heise
WOWZERS. That sure was a good one. Thanks doodle man
