🌱Hydroponics​ update...

Because of extreme heat in the room we initially tried to grow in, sprouts weren't surviving.

By creating a small test grow box and placing it in a cooler room which uses air conditioning much of the time, this batch of test sprouts are turning into larger plants.

The next step will be to test whether or not once started, the plants can survive in the bigger grow area despite the heat of the room it's in.

🤖 Applied​ Artifical Intelligence: Generating Images for School Projects

▪️AI tools like Gemini include powerful image generation capabilities you can use to create covers for videos, concept designs for real-world projects but also images for school projects like coloring pages and worksheets, diagrams, and material for larger projects and presentations;

▪️This one involved different animal habitats (forest, desert, jungle, ocean, & arctic) with AI creating a consistent design in terms of size & style for both the background/ground and cut-out animals in the environment you couldn't get through traditional internet image searches;

▪️The final presentation's​ consistency would only have been possible previously if the animals and environments were custom drawn before AI tools became available;

▪️This is a simple example of how AI tools can be used for creating real world projects using a printer and common school materials;

📝 Applied Artifical Intelligence: Generating Custom Worksheets for Students

If you homeschool or simply want to help your children in a specific subject, you could always find and download worksheets using an image search on your favorite search engine.

But with AI tools like Gemini which are free, AI can generate very specific worksheets for any subject and in any style you can imagine.

Here is a selection of worksheets for grades 1 and 2...

In some cases the AI prompt was very specific in terms of the wording of options for flashcards or matching exercises.

For math problems, Gemini easily generated appropriate and sufficiently varied problems.

This use to take me hours to do in an image editor if I couldn't find what I was looking for among pre-made options online.

This is just another capability you may or may not have known AI could be applied to.

Do make sure to double check generated worksheets as mistakes are occasionally made.

💻 Applied AI: Quick Rendering 3D Models

🖥For years, rendering an image from a 3D model required not only making the model but spending an hour or more setting up backgrounds, materials, and lights - rendering a single image could take minutes, half an hour, of longer depending on the circumstances;

🤖With AI, a simple 3D model with minimum textures can be created into a rendered image in just seconds;

🚀For example, a 3D model of a sci-fi spaceship made in SketchUp was quickly transformed into a final image complete with lighting and backgrounds in just seconds by the free version of Gemini;

🏢This also works with architectural and product design models;

❗️The only drawback is in terms of precision - while it takes longer to do it manually, you will get exactly the results you are looking for.

With AI, you can never be certain, while loose concept art can be produced in seconds, precision is sometimes difficult to arrive at.