Descriptor dimensionality reduction

[jamesbradbury]

In speculative funky land this is quite promising for python heads

maxfrenzel/CompressionVAE

[b.hackbarth]

@tedmoore

This makes a lot of sense to me. I think it’s a really nice lens for concatenative synthesis. I have a plotter tool in SC that I use a lot – I might edit that tool to make it possible to move points around and see what that sounds/feels like.

Thanks for the cool video. Great to be able to explore the different dimension reduction methods side by side. I think that the best thing for me to do in this instance is to make a video showing a bit of what I’m thinking about/trying with regard to visual target editing. Will try to get to it next week.

In the meantime, have you considered plotting a 4th dimension as the size of the points? I’ve been doing this with loudness and it’s pretty useful visually.

[tremblap]

@b.hackbarth

Great to be able to explore the different dimension reduction methods side by side.

Indeed that was the fun part of this project I was referring to on Friday. If you are ok in SC you can try it for yourself here - the fun bit is that we all had a favourite that was different