Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
'Infinity' is created live and each character is unique, with its hypnotic beings born from code through a process known as ‘procedural generation’.
Procedural generation is often used in videogames to create animated characters, digital landscapes, textures, and even sound effects – all in real time. Universal Everything (UE) used motion-capture technology and CGI (computer-generated imagery) to create a suite of character models. They then established a set of rules to determine how colour, texture and shape could be combined before an algorithm was programmed to randomly select combinations. This generates infinite variations in the characters you meet on screen.
Universal Everything see this creative process as a collaboration between humans and computers. What’s fun about the method is that not even UE know who the computer might create next!
Read more about Infinity: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/122583--infinity/
Learn more about Beings by Universal Everything
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/beings/
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'Infinity' is created live and each character is unique, with its hypnotic beings born from code through a process known as ‘procedural generation’.
Procedural generation is often used in videogames to create animated characters, digital landscapes, textures, and even sound effects – all in real time. Universal Everything (UE) used motion-capture technology and CGI (computer-generated imagery) to create a suite of character models. They then established a set of rules to determine how colour, texture and shape could be combined before an algorithm was programmed to randomly select combinations. This generates infinite variations in the characters you meet on screen.
Universal Everything see this creative process as a collaboration between humans and computers. What’s fun about the method is that not even UE know who the computer might create next!
Read more about Infinity: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/122583--infinity/
Learn more about Beings by Universal Everything
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/beings/
_____________________
ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture. Watch, play, make and discover a universe of films, TV, videogames and screen-based art.
Visit us in Melbourne’s Fed Square or online at www.acmi.net.au.
Follow us
Facebook: facebook.com/acmionline
Instagram: instagram.com/acmionline
Twitter: twitter.com/ACMI
www.acmi.net.au
