Articles
Long reads on how pictures, pipelines and creative AI actually work. Written from the studio floor, with sources you can check.
Graphics, animation & AI · · 26 min readVector 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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Colour & light · · 8 min readWhy 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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Creative coding · · 8 min readArt 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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3D capture · · 8 min readHow 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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AI & vision · · 8 min readHow 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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AI & language · · 8 min readWhat 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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Images, audio & video · · 8 min readHow 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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