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Insights into the arts, procedural effects, AI, aesthetics and design by moving image artist (aka xfx), creative director and co-founder of Solo Kojima.

[▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝒙𝗳𝘅 ║▌║▌║█│▌ @shari_solo]

Currently liking this NOH Mecha mask generated by the NOHm generator tool, custom made in #Houdini – this one based on Onryo (or demons in Japanese) 👹

https://t.co/CgtDTKbyAT

#withFND #OriginalContentArtist

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Researchers placed 1,000 AI agents in a Minecraft server, and they developed their own civilization with government, culture, and economy. An exciting experiment. How human does AI behave?

[Paul Calcraft @paul_cal]

The story of LLMs playing games, and what we know so far

Tic Tac Toe, Chess, Minecraft, NYT Connections, Wordle, Pictionary, Connect 4, Codenames, Snake... 1/n

[AK @_akhaliq]

chatgpt 4o update

this took a couple tries

same prompt: Write a p5.js script that simulates 100 colorful balls bouncing inside a sphere. Each ball should leave behind a fading trail showing its recent path. The container sphere should rotate slowly. Make sure to implement proper collision detection so the balls stay within the sphere.

[▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝒙𝗳𝘅 ║▌║▌║█│▌ @shari_solo]

I just earned a CS50 Computer Science Certificate on @edXOnline! Professor David J Malan @davidjmalan is perhaps one of the smartest people I have learned from and I want to express my gratitude to him and his whole team: https://t.co/4Ohgl4Ruhl

[▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝒙𝗳𝘅 ║▌║▌║█│▌ @shari_solo]

Really fun way to art direct more complex small scale fluid sims in real time potentially https://t.co/WmMNQ8vW1D -- would be great if we could start in this way in #Houdini!

[Catsuka @catsuka]

"Akira" movie was released 35 years ago in japanese theaters (July 16, 1988).

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Impressive as always

[Jake Rice @TearsOfJake]

Someone in a discord I belong to asked how to replicate the Aperature tool from Gaea, which I thought was a neat problem. So then I decided why not make it anisotropic too :)

Project file here: https://t.co/6rissQbRyY

Blog on aniso distances here: https://t.co/cCUjtcymBM

[Anurag Ranjan @anuragranj]

Introducing 🫂HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats - capable of creating animatable (3DGS) avatars from a casual video (50-100 frames) in ~30 mins. Our avatars can easily be embedded into other (NeRF) scenes. (1/4)

Project: https://t.co/ws69aCAUtG
arXiv: https://t.co/yjsR9Vt8RY

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@vinniemourax @OpenAI @sama @TIME Beautifully awkward. Young. Positive. In the wrong hands, lethal in orders of magnitude yet unseen.

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@edgarwright @sparksofficial Thank you for sharing! ❤️

[edgarwright @edgarwright]

Hello there! It’s my total pleasure to share my end of year playlist for this year, with fifty-ish tracks I've been loving in the last twelve months. Please, play loud and in order, but most importantly… ENJOY.
Here's my TOP 50 SONGS OF 2023 x
https://t.co/cCggQe5aSq

[Paul Esteves @PaulEsteves28]

2/24 #vexember

Today's challenge is from probably the most talented person I've ever met @swalsch! He is actually the OG of these challenges over on CGwiki and the reason I thought of vexember, so thank you Swalsch!

Amazing free hips from the genius: https://t.co/QQFJ0ueJGG

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Always been very positive about using new technologies such as AI. Then I see people I respect a lot more than OpenAI bosses who actually offer this slap in the face and it really makes me question whether my enthusiasm may be misplaced. I'm thinking: https://t.co/3YEcGoZsBR

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Neat Temporal Smoothing techniques in SOPs by Mark Fancher

@sidefx #Houdini
https://t.co/6H8RTmkoqt

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@sparksofficial I love both of you so dearly.

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You'll really notice AI when you start seeing it's creations in your actual life.

https://t.co/Uvv2Wa9fdn

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Experiments with #Adobe #Firefly generative diffusion art with the process steered using imagery generated using @sidefx #Houdini and a clear artistic vision.

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My recent Simulations Reel with heavy use of #Axiom solver by @TheoryAccel inside @sidefx #Houdini https://t.co/i2ULZiQ2oX

[Simon @Simon_Houdini]

Recently made a new tutorial for SideFX!
https://t.co/ANWxs4sfzF

#houdini #procedural #techart

[Junichiro Horikawa @jhorikawa_err]

SOP based simple fluid-like setup. Could be a topic for livestream maybe?
#Houdini