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Dog overlooking Jardin Des Tuileries 

Octi

iOS video app employs Computer Vision and Machine Learning to recognize full body forms to apply various effects, ranging from chromakey filters to gesture actions, and additional 3D characters that can imitate your movements:

Octi is an AI video platform that sees and understands humans in your videos, allowing you to do new, exciting things with your phone camera.

*Create custom, interactive stickers of you and your friends. Insert them in cool videos to share.
*Change your body with stunning visual effects. Turn your body into diamonds!
*Learn unique body moves that will trigger instant effects in your videos. Say hello with a rainbow or make it rain with dollars.  
*Collaborate on shared augmented videos with your connections- create the ultimate expression with video.
*With Octi Dittos you have your own mini clone that will copy your body moves exactly!
*Octi is at the beginning of an Augmented Video revolution- more coming soon! 

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EDIT:

One of the developers of this app, Sam Loeschen, shares potential graphical effects that could be added in the future [source]

Strange Jealousy

Music video for track by Crøm-lus put together by Georgios Cherouvim(@ch3-gr) utilizes a rendering effect inspired by the formation of slime mold interconnected networks:

The visuals of the video are generated algorithmically and feature visually complex patterns that emerge through the simulation of a self organizing behavioral system. Such patterns appear in nature and the brain is tuned to categorize them as organic, which also carries an inherited feeling of unease. This is used in the video as a vehicle to reflect on the emotions of the song. Taking the lead from the lyrics, the patterns evolve and shift between ambiguous  shapes to the recognizable form of the two faces, an elegant interplay between synthesis, metamorphosis and decomposition of organic patterns and the human figure.

The video was shot and edited as normal and then used to drive the behavior of a multi agent based system, obeying a set of simple rules and forces. The most characteristic behavior is the slime mold (Physarum Polycephalum) which creates a distinct network of interconnected branches. Over the years slime mold has fascinated many scientists and artists. Even though Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell organism, it exhibits a remarkable sensory-motor behavior and has the ability to create complex networks while searching for nutrients. Despite the lack of a central nervous system, it is able to effectively locate, migrate towards sources of food and over time optimize its complex network of interconnected branches, to effectively transport the nutrients over its constantly changing body.

The system was implemented in Touch Designer, with the core logic coded in GLSL with compute shaders and can also be performed in real time. Off-line motion vectors were extracted from the video using Furnace in Nuke.

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The Lieutenant by Robert Cornelius
Via Flickr:
I wanted to create something a bit more futuristic and sci-fi-esk … I feel I have accomplished my mission. Check out my newest blog post for some explanation on how I get my “illustrative look” and also take a listen to my in-depth speed edit video! www.robertcorneliusphotography.com/blog/the-illustrative-…

After rain.

Here is another Ugly Face (Tim Escobedo’s layout).