Timeframe X01, a digital artwork produced through Comfy UI, leverages AI in its creation process. Utilizing my prior 3D artworks as a foundational element, the framework and tablet components undergo an iterative crossbreeding, img2img, and multiple upscaling processes with Australian landscape painter John Glover's works, specifically those portraying Tasmanian landscapes—a thematic choice reflecting my connection to the place I grew up in.

Presented within a webGL container, Timeframe X01 shifts away from a flat 2D rendering, adopting a 3D object format. Marigold AI generates a depth map for displacement effects, complemented by normal and roughness maps derived from the base image, enhancing tactile shader details. This method encourages a virtual interaction with the artwork, simulating a sense of touch within the browser environment, alongside the more traditional image format.

As the first entry in a series of 150 AI works, Timeframe X01 is the starting point for me of a new way of working, connected and expanding on my previous work, integrating AI tools in a deliberate and purposeful way, offering adaptability in mediums and enabling previously unattainable levels of detail immersion. Viewers can access the artwork as a high-resolution PNG image (Press D) or a dynamic 3D web object.

For more context, please read a specially commissioned essay from Kirsten Bevin expanding on the themes and context of the work:

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Web GL 3D / PNG
Nic Hamilton
2024