Listing to the radio this week I heard a story about A.I. generated art. Turns out that there are now a number of these “bots” creating original art from images found on the internet. Of course, many artists are upset by the fact that their work is being used to help the machine generate original art in a matter of seconds. For fun I went online to try out some of the free sites and I was impressed at the quality of the free stuff and can only imagine what the pay sites could come up with it.
This got me wondering if the same is true with 3D? Turns out there are companies out there doing it now and this brings me to my point and question. What if in the near future a company makes something like Blender that can use pictures or even better blueprints to generate 3d models for Trainz? I can see it being much like Photoshop, but in the hands of an artist much like Steve Lerro over at K&L Trainz where his locomotives are works of art or Jointed Rail and their spectacular diesels; the program could cut the time down to a fraction of what it takes now. Imagine having an A.I. knockout a locomotive, rolling stock, or scenery item in a matter of minutes and then have these artists finish the textures, the content would go through the roof.
So, my tech-savvy friends is this just wishful thinking or a brave and scary new world?
Dave
This got me wondering if the same is true with 3D? Turns out there are companies out there doing it now and this brings me to my point and question. What if in the near future a company makes something like Blender that can use pictures or even better blueprints to generate 3d models for Trainz? I can see it being much like Photoshop, but in the hands of an artist much like Steve Lerro over at K&L Trainz where his locomotives are works of art or Jointed Rail and their spectacular diesels; the program could cut the time down to a fraction of what it takes now. Imagine having an A.I. knockout a locomotive, rolling stock, or scenery item in a matter of minutes and then have these artists finish the textures, the content would go through the roof.
So, my tech-savvy friends is this just wishful thinking or a brave and scary new world?
Dave