Ciaran O Brien

Cyberpunk aesthetic Gemini news rating with a CRT effect #touchdesigner #creativecoding #python

Mark Tutorial Completed! This is a mix of Python and TouchDesigner. I used Python to scrape and clean news headlines from ‘NewsAPI’. I then call Gemini to categorise each headline into a pre-defined category, and also evaluate each headline based on what it thinks the societal impact is on a scale of 0 to 10 […]

Rating news with Gemini and visualising with a CRT effect #touchdesigner #creativecoding #python

Mark Tutorial Completed! This is a mix of Python and TouchDesigner. I used Python to scrape and clean news headlines from two news APIs. I then call Gemini to evaluate each headline based on what it thinks the societal impact is. A score from -100 to -1 indicates a negative effect, 0 is neutral, and […]

TouchDesigner: Life without sex #touchdesigner #art #creativecoding

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner with an AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where 3 layers of processing happen: 1. The main video has some displacement effects. This is seen by the black silhouette becoming washy and blurry. The lines that flicker over the main screen cause […]

TouchDesigner + Python – Gender inequality in the workplace #touchdesigner

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner and Python along with an AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where blob tracking, words with line connections, and visuals chaos responding to audio oscillations happen. A Python script is used to create a video with a black background and red text. […]

TouchDesigner and Python: Surveillance state

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using TouchDesigner. Diagrams were downloaded from Google Patents on the topic of ‘Mass Surveillance” or “Public Surveillance”. These wear read into TouchDesigner, and a green old school effect applied. They were synced to the audio here. Python was then used to take a photo of Banky’s art piece from the Royal […]

TouchDesigner, Processing, Python – Misuse of AI can have grave consequences #touchdesigner

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner, Processing, and Python along with an AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where blob tracking, words with line connections, and visuals displacement responding to audio oscillations happen. The video is also input to Processing script to create the ASCII art effect. A […]

TouchDesigner – AI may be harming children's development

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using TouchDesigner with AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where line tracing, blob tracking, words with line connections, and visuals responding to audio oscillations happen. Some of my thoughts, as an AI researcher, on AI and development: https://www.instagram.com/kiki_kuuki/ Song ID: Jun Nishimura – Solaris Files available on […]

TouchDesigner and Python – AI cannot replace human connection #touchdesigner #creativecoding

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner and Python along with an AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where blob tracking, words with line connections, and visuals responding to audio oscillations happen. A Python script is used to generate a second video of a poem. Then a second Python […]

Python + TouchDesigner: No freedom without struggle

Mark Tutorial Completed! The main video was taken from a recent train journey from Tainan to Taipei in Taiwan. I applied the intense skipping frame edits, the words over the video, and squares using TouchDesigner. I used Python to add some RGB channel offset, vertical and horizontal tearing, block displacement, slight warping, and a few […]

TouchDesigner + Python: Do not worship technology #touchdesigner #creativecoding

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner and Python. The video is input to TouchDesigner where the blurring, displacement, and effects of the lines coming off the wall to cover the subject are created. A Processing script is then used to generate the video of the ASCII art over the woman’s body. Finally, […]

TouchDesigner and Python – AI is no replacement for human connection #touchdesigner #creativecoding

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner and Python along with an AI video from Midjourney. The video is input to TouchDesigner where line tracing, blob tracking, words with line connections, and visuals responding to audio ossilations happen. A Python script is used to generate a second video of a poem. Then a […]

TouchDesigner and Python – Couple embracing #touchdesigner #creativecoding

Mark Tutorial Completed! Made using a combination of TouchDesigner and Python along with a stock video from Pexels. The stock video is input to TouchDesigner where video displacement and some noise effects added. A Python script is used to generate a second video of a poem. Then a second Python script combines the TouchDesigner video […]

YoloV8 Segmentation with Python #yolov8 #touchdesigner #segmentation

Mark Tutorial Completed! Entirely made with Python. Using the YoloV8 segmentation model for segmentation, along with OpenCV for the bounding box with a title and confidence interval, and PyDub for the audio. Files available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/kiki_kuuki/posts

TouchDesigner – Blob tracking, displacement, noise, coordinates

Mark Tutorial Completed! A variety of techniques at play here. File is available over on my Patreon. Audio by Sogar, called Ker36. https://www.patreon.com/c/kiki_kuuki/