A Short Break

Hi, Everyone,

Just fyi, I am going to be out of pocket for the rest of the week. The plan is for us to be in San Antonio where we will (I hope) have a good time and I’ll gather more material for my weekly travel blog.

However, I should be back by Saturday, so stay tuned!

Oh, and as a quick aside I hope you’ll find amusing, here’s a video I recently did with Runway ML. I used another program to generate an image that looked vaguely like some of the covers of the science fiction paperbacks I consumed in vast numbers when I was a younger chap.

Then, I took the image and added motion to specific areas with Runway ML.

What is particularly interesting to me is the way that Runway ML then turns the flying saucers into balloons. It wasn't what I wanted, but it makes sense. The software asked itself, "what behaves in this fashion?" It came back with an answer -- "balloons" -- and generated a video accordingly.

Wild, isn’t it?