CuriousMonkey

Articles

Long reads on how pictures, pipelines and creative AI actually work. Written from the studio floor, with sources you can check.

  1. Graphics, animation & AI · · 26 min read

    Vector and Raster Graphics Explained

    Pixels and paths, resolution and file formats, and what really happens when animation and AI turn them into images and video.

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  2. Colour & light · · 8 min read

    Why Colours Change Across Light and Materials

    Glowing pixels, mixed pigments, colour profiles and white balance: why one colour changes between screens, print and paint.

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  3. Creative coding · · 8 min read

    Art Made with Mathematics and Code

    Coordinates, waves, noise, seeds, fractals and shaders: how simple mathematical rules become art you can control.

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  4. 3D capture · · 8 min read

    How Real Objects Become Digital 3D Models

    Photogrammetry, LiDAR, structured light, NeRFs and Gaussian splats, and the difference between a scan that looks right and one that measures right.

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  5. AI & vision · · 8 min read

    How AI Sees an Image

    How image AI turns pixels into features, labels, captions and search results, with CNNs, Vision Transformers, CLIP and their limits.

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  6. AI & language · · 8 min read

    What Happens After You Write an AI Prompt

    Follow a prompt through context, tokens, attention and sampling, then see how retrieval, tools and image generators differ.

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  7. Images, audio & video · · 8 min read

    How Compression Makes Digital Media Smaller

    How lossless and lossy compression work, why JPEG, PNG, FLAC and video codecs differ, and how bitrate affects quality and size.

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