The Waveform Generation — Diary

When did you stop chasing photorealism — or did you?

2026-10-17T00:00:00Z

I never stopped chasing it.

A friend of mine in the TouchDesigner community works on world models and has been doing realism-based generation for a couple of years now. He is the one who inspired me to keep searching for that uber-realistic generation. Getting all the way there takes the premium models, but we run MiniMax H3 now and it is pretty good, and so much of it comes down to the prompt.

In my own visual work there have always been elements of realism. I used to do caricature, realistic but cartoonish. My paintings are very abstract, but the realism is still in there, hidden underneath the colour and the theory and the principles behind them.

When it comes to AI, I think realism is the chase, and the chase is real. You look at Midjourney output and it is creative and different from reality, and at the same time it can look completely real, the same way high-end CGI can. There is the deepfake question hanging over all of it, with its pros and cons.

A film camera recording a scene looks real because it is reality. Anything computer generated has to emulate that, and AI is the closest a consumer has ever been able to get to that kind of output. In my own creativity, I like to ride the line: realism embedded into abstraction.

If you had to project your work on the side of a building tomorrow, what

2026-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Bilbao Guggenheim

What's a thing AI can do that you'd rather it not do for you, even if it

2026-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of my paintings

Where does your creative work mirror your relationships? Where does it

2026-05-31T00:00:00Z

It’s not work, it’s just fun

What's a question you've been afraid to ask out loud?

2026-05-28T00:00:00Z

Can’t think of one I want published on my website lol

What would your work gain from a month with no internet?

2026-05-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe be better grounded in the physical world

What's a part of yourself you've grown into through your craft? Are you

2026-05-23T00:00:00Z

Focus and retrospective growth. I’m grateful for everything.

What feedback did you ignore this week, rightly or wrongly?

2026-05-23T00:00:00Z

I ignored the thinking I couldn’t do any of this and trusted Claude

If you had to delete half your sample library to make better use of the

2026-05-23T00:00:00Z

Drums

Gallery Multi-Row System & Site Enhancements

2025-11-30T00:00:00Z

Gallery: 5 scrolling rows on homepage, 3 on subpages with alternating directions
Variable animation speeds per row (15s–27s), hybrid real images + generative canvas
All gallery cards clickable with modal view, 75×60px with wavgen-yellow borders
Homepage now aggregates images from ALL section folders (art, music, video, data)
Ken Burns effect slideshow cycles through combined images
Fixed video player auto-scroll on load (added skipScroll parameter)
Fixed code playground Monaco Editor stealing focus on page load
Removed duplicate hero sections from music subpages (ambient, melodic, breaks)
Removed unnecessary dark overlay divs, consistent 2×2 grid layout

Technical:

GSAP startRowMarquee() for individual row animations
Scroll position save/restore pattern for Monaco initialization

Save Markdown Diary entry to local site

2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

This comment will be saved to the site using a local application. One question is, how this will run in the browser when deployed to Github Pages?

Save Markdown Diary entry ON WEBSITE

2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

This comment will be saved to the site using a local application. One question is, how this will run in the browser when deployed to Github Pages? Here is the test :-)

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2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

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Email MD

2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

Email MD

2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

Email MD Local test

Project overview seeded from README

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

Eleventy-powered, teaching-grade portfolio with comprehensive commenting and GSAP-driven visuals.
Sections: Music, Video, Data & Tech, Art; responsive navigation; purple/yellow theme.
Real multimedia: SoundCloud (10 tracks) and YouTube (5 videos) with robust UX and error handling.
Interactive Code Playground: Monaco Editor with modes (Tailwind, GSAP, Eleventy, Site Snippets).
Tech stack: 11ty, Nunjucks, Tailwind, Node, GSAP, GitHub Actions/Pages.
Purpose: living reference and playground blending creative tech, pedagogy, and portfolio.

Generated by Page

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

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Dev + Deploy flow (convenient reference)

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

Local dev options:
- Two terminals: npm run build-css and npm run serve.
- Or one command (recommended): npm run dev using concurrently.
Production build check: npm run build runs Tailwind then Eleventy.
Deploy via Git:
- git add ., git commit -m "…", git push origin main.
- GitHub Actions builds: Node setup → npm ci → build-css → eleventy → deploy _site/.
Quick cheatsheet:
- npm run dev → edit → commit → push → wait for Pages.

Codebase commenting project summary

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

Scope: every meaningful line across templates, JS, CSS, config, docs, and data is commented for teaching clarity.
Native comment styles: Nunjucks ``, JS // and /* ... */, CSS /* ... */, Markdown .
Teaching blocks at file tops explain structure, purpose, and decisions.
Heavily documented systems:
- GSAP gallery (hero slideshows, background slideshow, infinite marquee, modal gallery).
- Media players (SoundCloud, YouTube) with robust UX and error handling patterns.
- Interactive Code Playground (Monaco) with 4 learning modes.
Result: a beginner‑friendly, maintainable, and pedagogically strong codebase.

Generated Manually

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

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