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I did a whole series where I tried to make a cyberpunk/synthwave city, where all the buildings were made from chips and circuit boards. The project consumed much of my time for several weeks and I made a lot of stuff, probably thousands of frames/images. I also trained 4 different AI LoRA models, from datasets of curated and retouched images of technology. So far from all that work, this is probably my favorite image. The original was actually an equirectangular photo of a street in Italy (Rome, I think), which I animated to scroll left to right in Rsolume Arena, then used as an init/input video in Deforum's Hybrid Video and as a ControlNet node. I actually made a depth map video from this animation clip, then brought it into my TouchDesigner 360 VR HDRI-from-Depth-maps project file, but as I said in my Enchanted Forest posts, it came out blurry and low detail, even when I backed out the POV till the image was warping. I'm going to make stuff with that project file again, as soon as I can get it to look better, perhaps with 8k video. I wanna do a VR installation at an EDM rave. That would be so much fun!

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I did a whole series where I tried to make a cyberpunk/synthwave city, where all the buildings were made from chips and circuit boards. The project consumed much of my time for several weeks and I made a lot of stuff, probably thousands of frames/images. I also trained 4 different AI LoRA models, from datasets of curated and retouched images of technology. So far from all that work, this is probably my favorite image. The original was actually an equirectangular photo of a street in Italy (Rome, I think), which I animated to scroll left to right in Rsolume Arena, then used as an init/input video in Deforum's Hybrid Video and as a ControlNet node. I actually made a depth map video from this animation clip, then brought it into my TouchDesigner 360 VR HDRI-from-Depth-maps project file, but as I said in my Enchanted Forest posts, it came out blurry and low detail, even when I backed out the POV till the image was warping. I'm going to make stuff with that project file again, as soon as I can get it to look better, perhaps with 8k video. I wanna do a VR installation at an EDM rave. That would be so much fun!