Building on the photo collage I made a few weeks ago, I experimented with recreating the concept generatively for video. Here are two early tests. The approach strongly depends on the contrast of the footage. I’ll keep working on it and see where it goes.
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Launching Sky Scanner 2.0
The cloud scanner has grown into something worth a version number. After further tweaking of the detection, Sky Scanner 2.0 now recognizes clouds at a much finer granularity. Thin contours trace each cloud’s outline, while hatching fills in and identifies its mass. I also played with the 3D grid to implement different hatching styles, and…
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Copper Clouds Animation
Copper Clouds is a new animation and an homage to Rutherford Chang’s Cents, the richly symbolic collection of 10,000 scanned one-cent coins inscribed as Bitcoin Ordinals. The penny makes the homage fitting. Across more than a hundred years in circulation, inflation has drained it of practical worth while collectors have learned to treasure it. The…
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Stretching Pixels of Clouds
I am back at playing and experimenting with how pixels can turn a static image into animation. I have been playing with vertical and horizontal stretch patterns, and with aligned, centred, and broken-up variations of the animation across the grid and frames. The first results are surprisingly relaxing, and they make me curious to keep…
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In Conversation with DANAE
Alongside Inner Voice, DANAE has published an interview with me on Medium, in English and French, under a question I rather like: can clouds teach us about impermanence? We cover a lot of ground. Why clouds have been my subject and medium for nearly a decade as a metaphor for the blockchain’s constant evolution, permissionless…
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A Tropical Thunderstorm from Above
On a recent flight, I encountered a tropical thunderstorm and documented it from the plane. I have flown several hundred flights over the past decade and have seen my share of thunderstorms and hurricanes from above, but this was by far the most spectacular storm I have witnessed and recorded. The frequency of the lightning…
Sculpting Towering Clouds
I am back at the drawing board, developing cloud shapes for a set of new sculptures. At the moment, I am experimenting with how a cumulonimbus cloud system could be represented through sphere-based shapes. The towering elements are proving quite challenging. A fun fact from along the way: a single cumulonimbus can hold over a…