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Part of my Piranesi set, this one has involved much more manual work than the others. Architectural and continuity errors have carefully been edited IN. See if you can spot places where geometry doesn't make sense!

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This little project began with Jacob Geller's video essay titled, The Shape of Infinity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5Ogh…

In that, he devotes a considerable chapter to the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi , an Italian architectural artist who is famous for his vast, impossible geometry, utterly excessive in detail and inspiring a dizzying sense of scale. Piranesi's works simultaneously evoke wonder, terror, awe, and vertigo in the viewer. A glorious indigestion. With endless detail to zoom in on and ponder.

Piranesi's works have been the inspiration for much more art through the ages, including several books, and a location in sunless skies. I wanted to put my thumb on the scale

With this set of renders, I wanted to capture that spirit, that design philosophy, while turning the power of machines loose to see what kind of awe inspiring horror we could birth into the world. I also wanted to see how Piranesi's aesthetic could be applied to a completely different setting - that of a sprawling cyberpunk cityscape. And of course, in full colour, for he was limited by the technology of his time.
My PC is a colossal beast, with an RTX 3090 TI at its heart. But rendering these was still a herculean task for it. The Highlander toiled for nine hours straight, running at full burn, to bring these wonders into reality.

Although the other pieces in the set are largely pure AI renders, this one has quite a lot more manual work put in

Part of my Cyberpunk gallery, looking at everyone's favourite futuristic genre: www.deviantart.com/nanakoac/ga…

Description

Part of my Piranesi set, this one has involved much more manual work than the others. Architectural and continuity errors have carefully been edited IN. See if you can spot places where geometry doesn't make sense!

----------------------

This little project began with Jacob Geller's video essay titled, The Shape of Infinity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5Ogh…

In that, he devotes a considerable chapter to the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi , an Italian architectural artist who is famous for his vast, impossible geometry, utterly excessive in detail and inspiring a dizzying sense of scale. Piranesi's works simultaneously evoke wonder, terror, awe, and vertigo in the viewer. A glorious indigestion. With endless detail to zoom in on and ponder.

Piranesi's works have been the inspiration for much more art through the ages, including several books, and a location in sunless skies. I wanted to put my thumb on the scale

With this set of renders, I wanted to capture that spirit, that design philosophy, while turning the power of machines loose to see what kind of awe inspiring horror we could birth into the world. I also wanted to see how Piranesi's aesthetic could be applied to a completely different setting - that of a sprawling cyberpunk cityscape. And of course, in full colour, for he was limited by the technology of his time.
My PC is a colossal beast, with an RTX 3090 TI at its heart. But rendering these was still a herculean task for it. The Highlander toiled for nine hours straight, running at full burn, to bring these wonders into reality.

Although the other pieces in the set are largely pure AI renders, this one has quite a lot more manual work put in

Part of my Cyberpunk gallery, looking at everyone's favourite futuristic genre: www.deviantart.com/nanakoac/ga…