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Of course, AI packages, clever as they might be, are only made possible by the power that lies under the bonnet of your PC, and NVIDIA products are fuelling the revolution, and driving this sector. Karen’s Asus Zenbook Pro Duo, for example, which features at its heart an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, comes primed and ready for all kinds of exciting AI adventures. One of the most impressive of these is provided by the NVIDIA Canvas app, a free download that’s available to anyone using the company’s GeForce RTX GPUs.
The app uses AI to interpret basic lines and shapes, translating these into realistic landscape images and textures, and seeing is believing as simple brushstrokes are instantly turned into incredibly lifelike images. It’s a stunningly simple process that opens up all kinds of creative possibilities, while also making it easy to provide awesome visuals for those looking to sketch out ideas to share with the likes of art directors or location scouts.
“The first time I tried it out it was amazing,” says Karen. “Seeing in real time how this software reacts to your brush strokes is really incredible. There are a lot of AI programs where you can type a prompt and then have to wait for ten seconds for something to happen, but with Canvas everything happens instantaneously: you can touch it, you can feel it. And I was working with a computer that has a stylus, and so it was actually like drawing directly on the screen. It was like magic was coming out of my fingers.”