Star Trek AI art thread

[Ogrebear]

which model is this? It's absolutely nailing that TNG-era look.

That was CivitAi using this Klingon model: https://civitai.com/models/213450/star-trek-races-klingons and these uniforms: https://civitai.com/models/67427/star-trek-tng-uniformscaptains-variant-update

Or its the Flux versions: https://civitai.com/models/686449/star-trek-tng-uniforms-4-variants-flux and https://civitai.com/models/841866/star-trek-klingon-race-flux

Cannot honestly remember and cannot check at the mo.

 

[publiusr]

I hope that—one day—someone will write a book on camera artifacts.

For instance—I was watching a documentary on NASA…and all the screens looked snowy.

Had the camera been a film camera, the screens would look normal.

I am surprised no sci-fi show had the snowy footage representing NASA being jammed by aliens.

Some improvement of imaging

Neural networks model improves machine vision and object detection under low-light conditions

When designing a robot, such as Boston Dynamics' anthropomorphic robot Atlas, which appears exercising and sorting boxes, fiducial markers are the guides that help them move, detect objects and determine their exact location. It is a machine vision tool that is used to estimate objects'...

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While many are attempting better fidelity, I find digital artifacts intriguing—like this one:

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Nonsensical jabberwocky movements created by OpenAI’s Sora are typical for current AI-generated video, and here’s why.

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Perfect for a Lovecraft story…

 

[publiusr]

There has been an advancement in computer depictions of iridescent sheens:

Computer scientists digitally render iridescent bird feathers

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, or the pink flash on a hummingbird's throat, thanks to a new method for rendering iridescent feathers.

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I am thinking this will also help capture the look of the TMP era Refit Enterprise’s aztec plates that were later covered in matte spray…perhaps captured in 3D printing?

Software Lets You Paint Surface Patterns On 3D Prints

Just when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program ha…

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For displays and games

Hollywood techniques help NASA visualize supercomputing data

Captivating images and videos can bring data to life. NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) produces visualizations, animations, and images to help scientists tell stories of their research and make science more approachable and engaging.

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AI tool creates 3D video game worlds with iterative design

A generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that could help video game designers to craft gameplay iteratively is presented in a Nature paper. The AI model, developed by researchers at Microsoft, generated robust three-dimensional (3D) worlds that obeyed the mechanics of the video game they...

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Audio Effects Applied To Text

If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope. The video is below. Of course,…

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Clean-up

Tools like Apple's photo Clean Up are yet another nail in the coffin for being able to trust our eyes

You may have seen ads by Apple promoting its new Clean Up feature that can be used to remove elements in a photo. When one of these ads caught my eye this weekend, I was intrigued and updated my software to try it out.

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[JR TREK]

Sorry, but this video is garbage and illustrates the problem with these AI vids. The ship, as well as the uniforms, are different from scene to scene and the fact that the....people requesting generation (I'm not calling them artists) aren't striving for consistency is just beyond lazy.

As for the future, here's whats going to happen with AI, whether it's images, music, voice work, movies....whatever. There will be so much, you will be buried under a mountain of all of those things and good luck trying to make a name for yourself because there will be thousands of things generated in all of those fields on any given day the easier it gets to do it. There used to be a "crap filter" that allowed the people that were both talented and dedicated to their craft to stand out. AI removes the crap filter so that no one will rise to the top and we'll be bombarded with tsunamis' of images, music, movies, etc.

It's no worse than the low poly art I had to do for games, decades ago. I hated that stuff.

The inconsistency problem will be solved.

Check this out -

These images were done by the same artist (me).

I love seeing the realistic renderings of my characters (even if they sometimes have too many fingers).

I can't tell you how deep and meaningful it is to see the characters looking real, and hear their songs actually working. I've got over 35 tracks for this band now. Do you know how many Diddy parties I'd have to do to make that happen without AI? Well, I'm not doing a single Diddy party, so it would never get made.

 

[publiusr]

I’d love to see this done as a 3D :

Greg Jein Enterprise D concept model 8 — Postimages

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[publiusr]

I understand some take a dim view of AI images-but there is one segment at this parody site that intrigued me:

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Ignore the nonsense and skip to the one minute, thirty-five second mark (1:35) or so.

The AI tried to fill out a 2D film image of the Refit into a 3D digital model.

Now—it is in no way accurate—BUT I would like to see it completed.

On turning images to models

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/how-can-i-turn-this-1-image-into-a-3d-stl-file.350026/#post-5614782

On drawings

Creating your own scale drawings: How to and best tools

Hi. I am currently researching the history of a particular helicopter, in particular the history of the various prototype and test variants of this helicopter. My initial plan was to write a book on this topic and publish it myself but for a number of reasons, this now won't be possible. I am...

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[publiusr]

This is perhaps the most frightening development of all—

Manipulation of video images as the camera is rolling:

Diminished reality: Making objects disappear in real time in live recordings

Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.

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I think all the Holocaust film canisters need a Svarlbard seed vault of their own…about now.

One more reason film must live:

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[137th Gebirg]

That’s fucked up. Revisionist “historians” will have a field day destroying the existence of actual history to fit a particular agenda or narrative. Nothing will be real anymore.

 

[publiusr]

We saw virtual human figures on TITANIC, Eudora improved on the ragdoll look…ON THE AIR had Space Ghost running from a crowd…and the Roger-Roger droids marching had to slightly break step.

And here is the latest advance

Dynamic model can generate realistic human motions and edit existing ones

When exploring their surroundings, communicating with others and expressing themselves, humans can perform a wide range of body motions. The ability to realistically replicate these motions, applying them to human and humanoid characters, could be highly valuable for the development of video...

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Keep your negatives—and have the Corridor Crew on speed dial.

That is all