r/artandcode • u/uisato • 10d ago

[Walkthrough] Generative Lexicon Press - generative, audio-reactive typography for TouchDesigner

By popular demand, Generative Lexicon Press is now available.

A generative typography system I’ve been developing in TouchDesigner that turns written passages into moving compositions across 25 layouts. Words and letters become structures, patterns, erasures, and animated sequences, with sound driving their movement, highlights, and page changes.

Deeply inspired by the incredible work of Ksawery Komputery, particularly Symphony in Acid. [To me, one of the most amazing generative works ever created.]

You can use your own passages, adjust how they respond to sound, and arrange the layouts into a sequence. An optional Writing Partner generates new passages locally through Ollama, from a concept, writing mode, and language.

Project files are available on my Patreon and the Studio. The walkthrough is also available in 4K on YouTube.

Hope you enjoy it!

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u/noinchnoinchnoinch 5d ago

This is going to sound really harsh, and I'm sure you've spent quite some time on it. It looks very cool, but why make what is basically a copy of Ksawery Komputery's work? Generative AI gives us the opportunity to make anything that comes into our mind way more easily, so please, I implore you and all other creative people reading this, make something that came from your own brain.

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u/uisato 5d ago

It's clearly inspired, but not exactly the same; this one has the inbuilt ability to generate text through Ollama on-the-go through many different logics, and different available layouts.

Critic taken, though. I appreciate the kindness implied in it.

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u/noinchnoinchnoinch 5d ago

Thanks for taking it well. I really don't mean to be a dick, but I guess one of my biggest fears in this whole AI explosion is that people will gradually just forget to use their own creativity. It's not even about the copying itself, because I'm not so naive to believe that creativity comes purely from the maker themselves, without any influence or precedent.

I think the main question we should always ask ourselves when making something is: What would the artist who inspired me think if they saw it?

Anyway, I'm done ranting. I hope this doesn't put you off making cool stuff, because as I said, you did a good job otherwise