Macbeth of Zerg
Technologies: RunwayML, Photogrammetry, Google Colab, zBrush
Machine learning engages graphic information differently than designers do. All fidelity towards visual, cultural, political, and geometrical context/agenda is lost, resulting in a new class of compositions that are unique but not critical. This project serves as an introduction to the possibilities that machine learning can bring to a design workflow. The systems, primarily Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are explored with input images and analyzed as output images. These outputs, while biased by the Designer’s inputs, lack any affinity towards meaning or aesthetic. The designer’s role extends to that of a critic who identifies the output images that add value to the designer’s intent or exposes them to new spatial relationships while also learning to dismiss the inherent tropes of machine learning.
The project “Macbeth of Zerg” combine two patterns style, Rococo and Machine language of the database, and applies the stage design process to the three iterations. The three iterations(Scenes) reflect the witches’ foretelling, Macbeth’s crown, and death.


Macbeth
ACT I SCENE I. A Desert Place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch
Where the place?
Second Witch
Upon the heath.
Third Witch
There to meet with Macbeth.


Macbeth
ACT III SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.
MACBETH
Sweet remembrancer!
Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
LENNOX
May't please your highness sit.
The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place
MACBETH
Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,
Were the graced person of our Banquo present;
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
Than pity for mischance!
ROSS
His absence, sir,
Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness
To grace us with your royal company.
MACBETH
The table's full.


Macbeth
ACT V SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
YOUNG SIWARD
What is thy name?
MACBETH
Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.
YOUNG SIWARD
No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
Than any is in hell.
MACBETH
My name's Macbeth.
Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head
MACDUFF
Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!
ALL
Hail, King of Scotland!
Flourish