GasLight : Neural Networked Presets

Been working on GasLight again over the past few days. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the autopilot mode, which randomly alters the visual settings while you watch. There’s a whole bunch of factors which all combine together in strange and unusual ways to produce GasLight’s effects, and trying to predict them and avoid the ugly effects on a randomly generated sequence is actually pretty tricky. It’s more or less there now, however. Much improved on the previous version, anyway.

Meanwhile, it’s got me thinking. It sounds a very cool idea to hook the autopilot up to a neural network. The user could hit a key whenever he sees a combination of settings that he likes. The neural network slowly learns to produce new settings that it thinks might appeal to the user.

Hmm….it just might work. But it would take a while – I’d need to dust off my old neural network code (and probably rewrite the entire damn thing while I’m at it). It certainly won’t be in the next release of GasLight.

So, if there’s enough interest in self-generating intelligent presets, I might add it. I’m looking for feedback on this one – do you use the autopilot mode, or do you rely on your own settings? Any interest in a self-learning system?

· 2004-11-04 ·

  1. That – is genious.

    Try it. — Russell G    Nov 17, 11:42 PM    #
  2. Could you have individual preferences storable and retrieveable?

    By the way, how would you be able to capture the screen output for use in I-Movie? — Traum    Nov 19, 08:56 PM    #
  3. Traum – you are aware that you can save & reload presets through the config button in the top right of the iTunes window, right? I’ve had a few people miss that because they always run their visualizers in fullscreen. I really ought to draw people’s attention to it a bit more… — Jonathan del Strother    Nov 22, 11:16 AM    #
  4. I like autopilot mode a lot. I was thinking a nice option would be to have it generate “Complementary Colours Only”, that is, it always chooses opposing colours on the Additive Colour Wheel. i.e . Red-Green, Blue-Orange, Purple-Yellow — Michael    Dec 23, 09:28 PM    #
  5. 　 — Hiroshi Iiwao    May 24, 11:02 AM    #

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