You may have heard the buzz about how Dalle-2 can use your written words to create photoreal art in any style, (and about the waiting list), but did you know that you can do the same thing with Disco Diffusion? “A grayscale depth map” created by...
Tell your friends I'm on the gram @grant_diffendaffer ! But while you are here check out this forest find: I'm going to be posting lots of photography, AI generated visual art, photogrammetry, and other sorts of eye candy. This is just a quick Neural Style Transfer filter...
A time-lapse of the May 15, 2022 lunar eclipse as seen in Canyon, CA. 320 individual frames shot on Sony A7ii. Camera motion with Vixen Polarie. RAW photos processed in Lightroom with pretty heavy noise reduction applied. Frame animation in Photoshop and post in Adobe...
I made it out to the Sierra foothills over the weekend for a visit with dear friends and some quality stargazing. Dark skies or not, my camera can see far more than my eyes because it can collect light over a long exposure to resolve...
As an artist that treads a line between digital and physical, I have always been fascinated with imagery. These days I am leaning into this more as I explore various means of using digital tools to produce beautiful images. Here is a favorite early astrophoto...
As you may know, my great love, next to 3D printing, is photogrammetry, a.k.a. reality capture. I have been working on them side by side for over 10 years, with printing being the perfect path from digital to physical, and reality capture doing the opposite. My...
I've been working with neural net image processing for a few years now, trying to figure out how to make more powerful creative use of this class of tools, which using AI to recognize and develop patterns. Here is a favorite photo, that I took...
Season's Greetings. I've been working on Storied Haven in different ways since 2015, when I helped Bree Hylkema and Five Ton Crane build it. At the time, my interest in photogrammetry was really taking off, and I determined that the boot would make an excellent subject. I've had...