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A Local AI Music Workbench: Notes From an Unfinished Side Project
A side project, labelled as one. A small local server that wires half a dozen open music models into one browser workbench, held together by a shared output folder. What works, what does not, and why I built it at all.
AI in Architectural Visualization: What's Actually Useful in 2026
Eighteen months ago I wrote that generative tools could not produce a deliverable render. I was right then and wrong now. Where AI sits in my production today, what it does for your project, and the list of what it still cannot do — valid until roughly next week.
From Render to Photograph: My In-House AI Enhancement Pipeline
I built a production system that turns working 3D renders into photorealistic images, with controlled variations, relighting on demand and an automated quality check on every output. In daily use since early 2026. What it does on your project, and what it does not.
Who I Work For, and What Each of Them Actually Needs
Architects need to test ideas. Developers need to presell units. Investors need to understand what they are committing to. Other studios need a pipeline that works. The 3D model is the same; the purpose, and the mix of rendering and AI, is not.
The AI Tool Flood: How I Decide What Is Actually Usable
Something genuinely new ships most weeks, and most of it is demo-grade, awkwardly licensed, or impossible to run on hardware you own. I stopped judging by launch threads and built a database instead, with a weekly job that re-checks everything that has not settled yet.
How I Work: The Visualization Process in 2026
From first call to final delivery: what happens at each stage, what I need from you, where the time goes, and where the AI finishing pass now sits in the schedule.
Inside ArchUpgrade: How I Built a Production AI Pipeline for Archviz
A technical look at my render-to-photorealistic system: a FastAPI backend driving a multi-GPU ComfyUI farm, a version-tree data model, structured prompt assembly, a local LLM that scores every image, and, after months of daily use, the parts that turned out to matter more than the models: licences, provenance, observability, and a client loop. No cloud, no subscriptions, no client data leaving the studio.
Vision Graphics Labs: Free Browser Toys Made From Studio Skills
Small apps about light, colour, geometry and sound: a sun-path simulator, a lens wheel, a floor-plan-to-3D tool, a daily spatial-aptitude game. All free, all in your browser, nothing uploaded. Why a visualization studio gives them away.
Understanding Architectural Visualization: A Buyer's Guide for 2026
For project owners and decision makers. What you are actually buying, what drives the cost, what AI changed about the price and the timeline, and what it did not.
Automation, MaxScript and AI in 3ds Max: From Writing Scripts to Driving the Software
I have automated 3ds Max with MAXScript for twenty-five years. AI assistants first made the scripts faster to write; now an assistant can operate Max directly through a tool server I built. What changed, what it is good for, and the part that is still my job.
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