Confessions of a researchaholic

2023-09-05

Caltrain passengers

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:46 pm
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I took a slower train to work this morning, which moved more stably and thus allowed me to draw more stably as well.

Recently I felt more spontaneity with these impromptu mobile phone drawings while stuck with attempts for more ambitious drawings on a tablet.
Maybe I just need to lower my expectation and go with the flow.

2023-08-28

Sunset

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:10 pm
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I saw some beautiful sunsets recently but could not manage to paint them to my satisfaction so I took a photo instead and drew over it.
I enlarged the moon for emphasis, but had some difficulty drawing the craters and eventually I switched to an old face reflecting a second meaning of sunset.

2023-08-27

Flying low

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:18 am
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I felt a bit sleep on a late Sunday morning while reading that paper about AI consciousness and authored this motion graphics over this photo I saw a few days ago to reenergize my mind.



2023-08-23

Natural American Spirit

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:05 pm
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This is a 3D drawing inspired by a pack of cigarettes I found while hiking.

Compared to 2D drawing, 3D drawing requires more efforts to place all these volumetric strokes, but also does not bother with the camera perspective and proportion.

2023-08-20

San Luis Rey mission

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:14 pm
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Drew after this photo by Henry P. Schmidt which I found mesmerizing and very different from other photos of the same mission I found online.

Ladybugs

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 3:33 pm
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Saw https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/printing-protest and immediately visualized the ladybugs moving in my mind.
I extracted the foreground (ladies and bamboo sticks) and several individual ladybugs via https://segment-anything.com/ to, and animated them via Adobe Fresco Motion.

2023-08-16

Water lavender

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:22 pm
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I am starting to experiment with https://feather.art/ which is an app (based on https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530092) for painting in 3D via a 2D interface by specifying the support surfaces first followed by projecting the (screen) strokes onto them.
It took some time to get used to the workflow, but I like it so far.

2023-08-05

Mapping a dog’s mind

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:32 pm
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Sitting a dog named Chewie, whose mind I tried to map as the following state machine:

Follow me around within 3 feel and eye sight.

Rest over a soft surface whenever possible (especially his beds which I can put where I want him to be).

Eat and drink when inside.

Pee and poop when outside.

Sleep, other than the above.

2023-08-02

Obituary for DLXXK17WK7M9

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:09 pm
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iPad Pro 12.9-in 64-GB
Enrolled 10/26/2021
Last seen 6/22/2023
Served in Fresco motion and live brushes

Succeeded by W99KG6V2KQ
iPad Pro 11-in 128-GB
Enrolled 7/27/2023

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