Course Links: 

• Assignment Submission Google Drive 

Readings: 

• Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manual Lima 
• Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design by Robert Klanten (Editor), Sven Ehmann (Editor)
  

• Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior by Joon Sung Park, Joseph C. O'Brien, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernsteinr
  
• AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation by Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Jiale Liu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W White, Doug Burger, Chi Wang
  

• Dr. Daedalus by Lauren Slater
  
• Real Nature is not Green by Koert van Mensvoort
  
• The Educator of Excess (an interview with Liam Young) by Rory Hyde
  
• Combustible Landscape by Sanford Kwinter
• Love: Mike, Swarm Intelligence: Quartzsite, Arizona by Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis
  

• Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture by Sanford Kwinter (Edited by Cynthia C. Davidson)
  
• The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy by Georges Bataille
• Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
  

Software (Required): 

• Python
• node.js 
  
• X-Force IDE for Microsoft AutoGen
  
• Cursor 
  

AI Tools / Resources:  

• ChatGPT
• Anthropic Claude
• Google Gemini
• More advnaced generation OpenAI Playground
  
• Guide for Prompt Engineering
  
• Guide for Prompt Engineering from OpenAI directly
  

• ChatGPT - automatically runs Dall-e + others  
• Midjourney - use via Discord or WebUI (see the Midjouney prompting guide)
• Dall-e-2 (older) 
  
• Gemini
  
• Meta AI
  
• Dream Studio by Stablility.ai 
  
• Adobe Firefly - best if you have a reference photo 
  
• UI for running Stable Diffusion
• Runway.ml - branching out, many tools now

• Classic Automatic 1111 Stability on Github and Install guide (older tool now, but fun to play with if you’re proficient in the simple UI image generations) 
  
• For advnaced image (and video) generation - ComfyUI - SOTA tool as of Sept 2024
• For ComfyUI manager you’ll need: https://git-scm.com/download/win and https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager?tab=readme-ov-file
• oldie but goodie - TensorFlow Deep Dream collab notebook
  

• https://civitai.com/
  
• https://civitai.com/models/62437/v1-5-pruned-emaonly  (good version of SD 1.5) 
  
• https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/lora/ LORA examples for ComfyUI
  

• Polycam - AI / Lidar 3d scanning app
• Masterpiece X - text to 3d tool  
  
• Luma Genie - text to 3d tool (beta)
  
• Meshy.ai - text and image to 3d
• TripoAI - 3d generation (developed with StabilityAI)
  

• Epidemic Sound (free trial 7 days) - royalty free sound and foley 
  
• AudioGen - text to audio AI 
  
• AudioGen 2
  
• Stable Audio - AI sound
  
• Riffusion - AI sings what you type 
  
• Adobe’s Voice Cleaner - AI 
  
• ElevenLabs - AI voiceover 

Digital Assets: 

• Quixel / Bridge / Megascans - 3d library with plugin for Maya including plants 
• Textures.com - textures library 
  
• Turbosquid - free 3d models
  
• Free 3d - free 3d models 
  
• PolyHaven - HDRI’s, textures, some models 
• SketchUp 3d Warehouse - built for Sketchup, most can be repurposed 
  
• Ultimaker’s Thingiverse - geard towards 3d printable models, but many available 
  
• MyMiniFactory - also geared towards 3d printing 
  
• BlendSwap - Blender model share community 
  
• SketchFab - general 3d library, some free and some paid 
  
• Kitbash 3d - expensive, pro-quality kitbashable models 
  
• Artstation Marketplace - lots of assets of varying quality