Tuesday, September 1, 2015

"Algorithm can create a new Van Gogh or Picasso in just an hour"

"The algorithm was given this photo of buildings, left, and a copy of Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.” In about an hour it taught itself to mimic Van Gogh’s style, and apply it to the photo of the buildings."

5 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

There is an algorithm that can play any piece of music in the style of any great master... Chopin, Beethoven and so on.

ricpic said...

I think it does its best job reproducing the style of the Cubist Picasso (lower left painting) probably because Cubism is also cooly analytic.

rhhardin said...

I had an art program on a Dec PDP11-34 in the late 70s, that continuously overpainted the picture right to left with a new shaded abstract picture, to give the machine something to do at night. The guards came in and spent hours watching it.

edutcher said...

Like to meet the guy who did that.

bagoh20 said...

An hour? What's it running on - a Tandy 1000? Doesn't photo editing software do something like this in an instant?

A human artist with the right skills could look at both images and do this faster if he could just lay down the ink as fast as a modern printer can. The printer is where the action is. What the hell is the computer doing for an hour - looking at porn and playing with his hard disk?