Using AI to enhance historical visualisations

Artificial intelligence is transforming the creative industry, offering new ways to generate, iterate and visualise concepts at unprecedented speed. However, the use of AI raises essential questions around authorship, accuracy, process integrity, environmental impact and artistic identity.

Genetic mutations

As the subject of the test case on which we could test a mutagen tool, we chose a simplified parametrically constructed creature blockout in Houdini. Creature block-outs are a simple geometric representation of a creature that can be worked out at a later stage for use in a game or movie, for example. The block-out largely determines the creative view. A mutagen tool can be a very useful way to quickly generate variations of a procedurally constructed model with a minimum of user input while still retaining sufficient control over the results. The method guarantees unique results because the values are randomly generated. In addition, the method is very fast.