For Episode 21 we have the AI aficionado, the master of the stream, Lyell Hintz AKA  @dotsimulate  !!

Besides for being an exceptional artist and creative, Lyell is a killer developer, and the brain behind the amazing Stream Diffusion integration into  @TouchDesignerOfficial  , needless to say the topics covered are vast!!

We get into Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania and moving to New York, Theater & Acting , Going to Berlin for the TouchDesigner meetup, Discovering Houdini, Discovering TouchDesigner, Discovering Coding, GPT inside of TouchDesigner, the future, dangers and excitements of AI, Generative visuals, optimizing Stream Difusion and developing tools for the community

For Lylles SET, we go into his amazing Stream Diffusion tool and take a look at some new features he's been working on, we also take a look at his GPT tool that is super powerful and interesting.

Talking to Lyell was extremely fun and informative, I really appreciate him coming on and am excited for what he is working on next!

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:47 - The Intersections of Art and Software Development

00:20:38 - The Power of Theater and Film

00:31:11 - Biking in Different Cities

00:41:38 - Malleability and Proceduralism in 3D design

00:51:59 - Simulated Worlds and Harvesting Happy People

01:02:31 - Bringing AI Models into Touch Designer

01:12:59 - Learning from the Community

01:23:28 - Negative Embeddings and Lightweight Models

01:34:14 - SET - GPT inside of TouchDesigner

01:45:13 - SET - StreamDiffusion TD - Updates on the latest tools and models

02:09:09 - SET - Controlling Model Parameters for Image Generation

02:20:14 - SET - Experimenting with Image Manipulation Techniques

02:32:35 - SET - Implementing Control Net, V2V and GPU ID

02:44:00 - SET - more GPT - Live Transcription using Python Manager

02:56:19 - Exploring Tool Development and TouchDesigner

03:07:10 - AI Empowerment for Artists

03:17:46 - Exploring Different Approaches to Learning TouchDesigner

03:27:43 - Embedding Space and Visuals in Touch Designer



The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world!
We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Stream Diffusion tools in TouchDesigner.

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Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Lyell for coming on!