Generative systems
- 1. 3642QCA Experimental and Generative Design
- 3. Section 2 Overview • Tutor: • Scott Roberts • Contact: • scott.roberts@griffith.edu.au • Focus: • Dynamic Real-Time Environments
- 4. Section 2 Overview cont. • Software: • Vue • Unreal Engine 4.25 • Quixel Megascans • Learning Method: • Week 4 will be taught during online class. • Week 5 and 6 are to be completed prior to class, with extension content delivered throughout online class.
- 5. Dynamic Real-Time Environments • The outcomes will involve the development of dynamic environments and generative particle systems. • The processes explored throughout this task will culminate in a 1 to 2-minute cinematic sequence showcasing the dynamic nature of your environment and particle system experiments.
- 6. Dynamic Real-Time Environments cont. • The composition of your final output will take full advantage of the camera and may include a soundtrack to be edited in After Effects. • This body of work will represent 30 hours of design and development.
- 7. Dynamic Real-Time Environments cont. • The cinematic will be supported by critical and contextual research pertinent to this course module of no less than 500 words with supporting images. • The subject of the research will be the application and potential for dynamic environments within the field of visualisation and immersive design.
- 8. Generative Systems Generative Systems using Node-based input for Design
- 9. What are Generative Systems? 1. Generative Systems are technologies with the overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by input. 2. Computational applications that use algorithms, parametrisation, and simulation techniques. These applications guide a composition from variation of data input.
- 10. What are Generative Systems? • Put simply, generative systems are automatically computed solutions from rule-based decision making. • The results vary depending on the data input, as the application uses a set of rules to manipulate the final composition based on the initial input.
- 11. How is it used? • Generative Design is used in many industries: • Architecture/Interior Design • Product Manufacturing • Programming • Fine Art • Game Design • Health and Medicine • …and many more
- 12. Node-based Generative Systems • These systems follow strict rules of logic, as is required for all applications and systems. • Historically, this logic has been implemented through text- based programming, being available to only those that understand specific programming languages.
- 13. Node-based Generative Systems cont. • In more recent times, this system of logic has become more available to designers and artists through visual programming. • Visual programming uses nodes and execution paths to complete logic functions.
- 14. Node-based Generative Systems cont. • Node-based visual programming is available in: • Unreal Engine Blueprints • Dynamo • Grasshopper for Rhino • World Machine • Houdini • Nuke • TouchDesigner • etc
- 15. Examples Tools and examples from industry and previous students.
- 16. Brushify.io
- 17. Brushify.io
- 18. Asher Zhu Cloud Painter • https://twitter.com/i/status/1291037793724989447
- 19. Previous Student Work • The following slides include stills from the cinematics produced by previous students. • Please do not used these as benchmarks! Push yourself to create your best work.
- 23. Topics Which topics are going to be covered in this section?
- 24. List of Topics • Exporting Terrains from Vue • Creating Landscapes in Unreal from Heightmaps • Landscape Editing tools (including splines) • Landscape Materials (Basic to Advanced) • Foliage tools (Material based and Generative) • Particle Systems using Niagara • Cinematic Sequences