Using pre-trained terrains

This video introduces loading a terrain with 2 continuous control channels, navigating an autoencoder with 4 latent dimensions.

What we need

• Make sure to have nn.terrain package and nn~ installed correctly, see Download and Installation for this.
• Make sure to grab an autoencoder (a .ts file) and a terrain model (a .pt file) from Pre-Trained Terrains (Presets).

Synopsis

This tutorial guides you through:

• A brief introduction of an autoencoder and latent terrain,
• Loading a pre-trained terrain in MaxMSP,
• Adding an XY pad to control the navigation in the terrain,
• Visualising latent vectors (via multisliders),
• Visualising the terrain (rendering a surface map).

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