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Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new
pieces on the fly
Author : mfi
Score : 305 points
Date : 2021-08-18 14:56 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| LegitShady wrote:
| Personally believe that art requires intention and some attempt
| at communication but it's an interesting project.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| In this case I suppose the real artwork is the space of all
| artworks that the machine is sampling from.
| LegitShady wrote:
| I'm not sure that makes this installation art in and of
| itself.
| cryptoz wrote:
| Who's to say that the AI doesn't have intent, and makes no
| attempt at communication? These are certainly very
| philosophical questions and I would be ready to stand by the
| idea that first, there is possibly intent and communication
| here, and second, I've never heard of this narrow definition of
| art before. Art is art, defining it so narrowly seems strange
| to me.
| LegitShady wrote:
| It's ok to disagree with me - everyone is allowed a different
| opinion on art. I'll explain a bit more about my opinion,
| which you are free to disagree with.
|
| Personally I don't think a machine generating pixels from
| neural networks trained on intentional art can create art -
| it can create something that seems very similar because it
| seems to generate the same or similar output but its missing
| the process and intention of art. If an artist draws random
| shapes with no intention or intent to communicate or evoke
| thought/emotion, all they're doing is making shapes, unless
| the random shapes themselves are an intent to communicate
| something (which is difficult if they're actually random).
|
| 'art is art' is a tautology with no meaning, and defining art
| in a way that makes some things not art is the only way you
| can have a useful definition of art.
|
| Change my tire? Art. Spill chocolate milk on the table? art.
| vomit after drinking too much? art. because art is art,
| right?
|
| I guess the question is why you think everything, including
| things done without intention or intent to communicate, is
| art?
| ozzmotik wrote:
| in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign,
| signaling some sort of message or meaning. even if there is
| no evident or inherent intent being encompassed in some
| chunk of reality, there is still something being signified,
| and therefore something being communicated. in cases like
| this, the art is the interpretant formulated by the
| interpreter, a personal value judgment, rather than some
| intended value encoded by some given creator of art.
|
| just my take on it, maybe it might provide a framework for
| seeing how even unintentional, stochastic processes can be
| conceived of as art. :)
| LegitShady wrote:
| >in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a
| sign
|
| Again, if you interpret changing a tire, spilling milk,
| or the vomiting after drinking too heavily as art, I
| disagree with you. Are traffic signs art, in and of
| themselves? are all signs art?
|
| I don't think I agree with you. I've never read peirce
| and I don't do that 'argument from authority' thing, but
| given your wording here I don't think I agree with what
| you're saying.
|
| >the art is the interpretant formulated by the
| interpreter,
|
| So according to pierce, my interpretation of this as not
| as art is as valid as you thinking its art, since that's
| how im interpreting it? It doesn't seem like a very self
| consistent idea.
| xaedes wrote:
| I think the generated pixels are not the art. The whole piece
| is the art, made by the artist, i.e. the OP.
| LegitShady wrote:
| perhaps the whole installation is art, if as a whole there's
| some kind of overall intention, message, or communication.
| Personally having trouble seeing that here. It's more a tech
| demo. It's a digital picture frame that generates its
| pictures procedurally from a neural network.
| mfi wrote:
| I'm glad that you're bringing this up, because it's an
| interesting (almost philosophical question) around what art
| is.
|
| In my mind, the interesting part in this installation is
| not necessarily the generated artworks, but rather the fact
| that they are one push of a button away from being deleted
| forever. It adds a consumable aspect to the installation,
| which I think is interesting. Can that evoke emotions and
| be art in itself?
|
| But that being said, I don't look at myself as an artist.
| I'm a simple Data Scientist enjoying building projects at
| the intersection of technology, woodwork and art (whatever
| that is).
| LegitShady wrote:
| >but rather the fact that they are one push of a button
| away from being deleted forever
|
| but how is that expressed or communicated through the
| installation? Why should anyone value random patterns
| generated by a machine that had no intention?
|
| I find andy goldsworthy's art incredible, and he bases
| his work almost entirely on this idea of impermanent art
| (although his is usually found materials). I'm not sure
| its communicated by what you've presented.
|
| I think the impermanence of random patterns that don't
| communicate anything is something you can find
| interesting rather than something thats communicated by
| the video screen, or the intention of the installation.
|
| It's a cool project, but ya, still not sold on this being
| art per se.
| lucidrains wrote:
| use CLIP to generate a title for each piece of art, followed by a
| description with GPT, and it is ready for exhibition
| reacharavindh wrote:
| As cool as this is, I have been struggling to find a good non-AI
| digital photo display for my house.
|
| The common ones you can buy as "digital photo frame" on Amazon
| sucks in image quality. I would like a minimalistic digital photo
| display that is colour accurate, hidpi, preferably have a way to
| store a handful of hi res images(if not, Adding a Pi-zero for
| this is still okay). Oh I am not so rich or hosting an art
| gallery or anything, so, it must be less than 700 bucks(the cost
| of an iPad). I don't understand why such a thing doesn't exist
| already.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| What about an android tablet?
| slobot wrote:
| I did something like this for an install using cheap 10"
| android tablets and kiosk software I found on the app store.
| Worked like a charm.
|
| ** https://slobots.com/2019/01/gallery-view-i-love-my-robot-
| at-...
| artur_makly wrote:
| a possible next step > add a motion sensor to *swipe fwd/back the
| artworks. _using a smooth pixel morphing blended transition.
|
| *or when toilet flushes ;-)_
| itronitron wrote:
| Worth considering that you could purchase a very good painting
| from a local artist or gallery for much less than the money and
| time that was spent on this project. While I get that this is a
| fun project, an actual work of art will provide much more
| enrichment over the many years that it will outlive an AI art
| installation.
| Kiro wrote:
| I prefer this over any static art.
| fksadfji12 wrote:
| lol
| mdoms wrote:
| I build my own furniture. It costs me more than something I
| could buy of equivalent or better quality. That's not the
| point.
| dvtrn wrote:
| Incredible thing about art is that people value it differently
| and for different reasons, so maybe the idea of "enrichment"
| isn't something universal?
| raman162 wrote:
| Very cool. I now have a reason to get my hands on a Jetson. Also
| great work on the detailed readme.
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, the Xavier NX was way more powerful than what I
| expected!
| linguistbreaker wrote:
| Check out 77 Million Paintings by Brain Eno
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Million_Paintings
| didntknowya wrote:
| great write up.
| mholm wrote:
| I was thinking the Frame TV had better color grading for the
| color temperature of the room. Does your video output not take
| advantage of this?
| hwayne wrote:
| This is amazingly cool.
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks!
| dr-detroit wrote:
| Taking things my kid could do into the next generation. Awesome.
| mirroregami wrote:
| Really cool. One piece of feedback: Try to get the white balance
| to better match the warm wight light of the room. The tv will
| blend in much much better.
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks, I'll try to improve the balance :)
| jnwatson wrote:
| See 1 for an innovative example of auto-calibrating
| brightness and white balance.
|
| 1. https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
| ggggtez wrote:
| I like the idea, but the art is meh.
| snarfmachine wrote:
| Very cool. But have you put it up against the AI Turing test? :)
| https://gumgum.com/guides/artificial
| dekhn wrote:
| The creator of ElectricSheep installs large installations like
| this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Draves it uses
| crowdsourced human preference functions to drive the art
| evolution
| [deleted]
| wyldfire wrote:
| Max Fischer? By any chance did you petition to keep a Latin class
| at your private high school? ;)
| mfi wrote:
| Haha no, but it has definitely help me to hide embarrassing
| images from my youth on Google ;) It only show images from
| Rushmore
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| First, I would like to say well done. Not just the project -- it
| is neat. I particularly appreciate the fact that it includes all
| the less obvious, to me, pieces like building appropriate box,
| sanding and so on.
|
| I wish more projects were like this ( as in, showed most of the
| steps ).
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks, I appreciate it!
|
| I really enjoy writing these guides for others to learn, it
| forces me to think more about the process :)
|
| If you liked this one, I've also written another guide where I
| built a full-size arcade machine from scratch:
| https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade
| [deleted]
| MikeDelta wrote:
| Nice! Art being lost forever is art in itself.
| mfi wrote:
| That's what I think as well, it adds an interesting dimension
| to the installation
| Animats wrote:
| Now have it automatically issue one NFT every few minutes.
| Profit!
| nelsnelson wrote:
| https://i.imgur.com/vpBRAjJ.png
| amirGi wrote:
| This is so freakin cool
| mfi wrote:
| Glad you liked it!
| slobot wrote:
| As an artist and an avid reader of HN, I find this both
| fascinating and terrifying (!) at the same time. Before I started
| painting robots, I painted abstracts and was heavily influenced
| by Abstract Expressionism. The images that your AI are generating
| (creating?!) are really cool. Equally as cool is that the images
| are deleted once a new one is generated, because a lot of the
| famous artists destroyed or painted over old works.
| shadowgovt wrote:
| That's extremely cool. Well done. :)
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks, it was a fun project!
| landgenoot wrote:
| Cool! Could also be nice with a A3 color printer and paper
| shredder. Banksy-style.
|
| This would make it less tv-isih
| sova wrote:
| Very beautiful. If I trained the network on say, just drawings
| and painting Mondrian did, do you think they'd converge
| stylistically?
|
| Is a huge (5,000+ items) dataset required to get decent results?
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| I think it's quite likely that you will heavily overfit the
| network if you only use a handful of images, where it might end
| up reconstructing the exact paintings. I only have experience
| using 5,000+ images.
| artur_makly wrote:
| This reminds me a lot of this Japanese Product/Service:
| https://frm.fm/overview
| lurker619 wrote:
| Would it have been easier to generate these images on some cloud
| gpu and stream/send the images to a smart tv? To avoid building
| and fabricating all the hardware components?
| SwiftyBug wrote:
| But then OP would have skipped a lot of the fun
| mfi wrote:
| Exactly, a big part of the project was to learn about edge-
| computing and integrating sensors with the GPIOs. But sure,
| that would've been possible to do.
| mrtweetyhack wrote:
| this is just proof that any splash of shit is abstract art
| orangegreen wrote:
| I wonder if using a color e-ink display would make the art look
| more appealing on a wall.
| spywaregorilla wrote:
| I've had the same thought, but alas. Prices are terrible.
| arsome wrote:
| A little white balance work would go a long way I suspect. An
| OLED panel would really make things pop, but the burn-in issue
| might be a problem unless you had it rotating very regularly.
| mfi wrote:
| It probably will! I actually looked into buying a color e-ink
| display, but ended up using a The Frame instead for a couple of
| reasons:
|
| * They are incredibly expensive if you want ~32"
|
| * I wasn't sure that it would've worked together with the
| Nvidia Xavier NX.
| artur_makly wrote:
| wow first time I heard of this beast.
| https://www.samsung.com/us/tvs/the-frame/highlights/ looks
| incredible thanks for sharing.
| sjg007 wrote:
| How is the samsung frame? I am thinking of getting one..
| mfi wrote:
| I think you're trading of the design for a bit of quality,
| you'll probably get more bang for the buck if you buy a
| non-designer smart TV. That being said, it's still a good
| TV!
| gidam wrote:
| it's funny what tech people consider Art. LOL
| [deleted]
| qq4 wrote:
| do you find any of the generated images interesting? there is no
| thought behind any of them which leads me curious to how
| captivating they might be.
| mfi wrote:
| Some of them are nice, but a lot of them are trash as well. So
| you need to click a few times before you find something you (I)
| like
| chorsestudios wrote:
| Any chance you have a gallery somewhere with some of the
| nicer images?
| henearkr wrote:
| Maybe a stupid question, but why the Samsung connect box if the
| Jetson already has a HDMI output?
| mfi wrote:
| If I remember correctly, The Frame 32" only has a One Connect
| cable connection on the back. The reason is that you won't get
| the flat TV-to-wall surface otherwise.
| [deleted]
| Sn0wCoder wrote:
| Very cool. I work from home in my basement and would enjoy such a
| device. Any plans to sell them? Or know of similar devices? I
| could probably build one, but most likely would end up in pieces
| next to my other random projects...
| mfi wrote:
| No, I currently have no plan to sell it. There's a lot of
| overhead involved when selling stuff, and I mostly enjoy
| building stuff like this :)
| Sn0wCoder wrote:
| Sounds good. Like others have said an API around the
| generator would be cool too, then all I need is a webpage and
| a monitor.
| huntercross wrote:
| Art shouldn't be unlimited. Its ok to call things screensavers,
| because screensavers are also cool, its just that it isnt art in
| the sense of "art" the word, if an AI is doing it, its something
| else, and making it unlimited is not interesting, it is
| irresponsible. Its the constraints that make art what it is, not
| simply the definition of an infinite possibility space
| fobdkbfjh wrote:
| If you're going to gatekeep what art can be, you better have
| some pretty impressive creative credentials of your own. Some
| people say "an unlimited edition is meaningless, has no value"
| and all they really mean is "I'm conservative, I don't see the
| point of change, and I can't think of any way an unlimited
| edition could be interesting"
| LegitShady wrote:
| Having a different opinion isn't gatekeeping, it's
| disagreeing. No one is stopping this person from doing what
| they want.
|
| Second, if your definition of art is unlimited, it's hardly
| useful, so I don't think it matters.
| mrits wrote:
| It certainly isn't unlimited. It is confined by resolution and
| color depth.
| swayvil wrote:
| We could call art, "made-objects that get you high with beauty"
|
| We could also call art, "byproducts of artistic (beauty-guided)
| action"
| xrd wrote:
| This is awesome. Is the StyleGAN code removed (to keep it
| private)? I see this commit message: "Remove my ML stuff." I'm
| interested in understanding the StyleGAN if you are open to
| sharing it.
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, I removed it as I want people to use their own
| generative art in their own build. But if you're interested,
| here's the implementation I used:
| https://github.com/taki0112/StyleGAN-Tensorflow
| xrd wrote:
| I'm struggling a little bit with using StyleGANs so far. Are
| you available for a (paid if you prefer) call where I ask you
| a few questions about it? If so, xrdawson@gmail.com.
|
| (I have a connection to Sweden, by the way. My brother lived
| in Eskilstuna in high school. So, I learned a little bit of
| Swedish when I visited him. His host brother thought it was
| really weird I met him and said "jag heter Chris, jag alska
| naturen!"). But, I would not feel comfortable talking to you
| in Swedish about StyleGAN. :) ).
| mfi wrote:
| I've sent you an email :)
| spoonjim wrote:
| The installation is impressive but the output is underwhelming.
| Then again, I feel the same about the pieces in most contemporary
| art museums.
| ghostbrainalpha wrote:
| He just needs a higher resolution screen, a screen that is much
| bigger, and placed inside of very nice frame. With the cables
| hidden.
|
| Then it's ready for the gallery.
|
| Especially if you could come up with a way to filter out some
| of the images that look too much like how a random broken
| monitor will output.
|
| This image in particular feels like "real" art to me.
| https://imgur.com/gaJVSs3
| artiszt wrote:
| it's okay as it is -- IF, and only IF, the artist says so !
|
| Rauschenberg too, as well as Lichtenstein and many others,
| wouldn't have liked it a bit being turned into some hotair
| egomaniac 0-creative wraped in plastic in some fin-groupies
| Schnabel'oesque or Koons'ian gallery spot
| guipsp wrote:
| Taking existing art and twisting it is art too. In fact
| there was a movement I can't recall the name of dedicated
| to this?
| pessimizer wrote:
| If they're dead we shouldn't worry about what they would
| think about what we do; we have enough to worry about.
| turtlebits wrote:
| Agreed, but I think the animated GIF and small, extremely
| compressed JPGs in the repo don't help. Maybe a youtube video?
| scollet wrote:
| The art is the installation.
| jcun4128 wrote:
| I wonder if you have to push the button or if it could auto-cycle
| at some interval. Powering is always interesting do usually need
| a dedicated power source like a wall plug less you had some other
| means to get power. Low energy/battery/harvesting maybe (I saw
| this runs on a Jetson).
| mfi wrote:
| I actually implemented it so that you have to push the button.
| By adding a dimension where an artwork you like is just a
| button-push away from being deleted, it actually makes you
| enjoy it more.
| jcun4128 wrote:
| This is just a thought. I don't know if you're aware of
| Github pages (probably) but regarding docs/hosting a basic UI
| with tabbed sections to present a chunked form of the README.
| swayvil wrote:
| Nice.
|
| What do you think of this? : https://vimeo.com/241051006
|
| Also, here's a generative art discord :
| https://discord.gg/gVna7Utm
| nine_k wrote:
| This says a lot about building MDF housing for a Jetson (BTW why
| not plywood?), and devotes literally half a dozen pretty generic
| lines to the actual art generation code. The algorithm is not
| discussed, and even art examples are not shown.
|
| This is sad, because wooden box building guides are abundant, but
| art generation guides are less so,
| mrits wrote:
| I hope you aren't syncing these random images to your iCloud
| account!
| oxinabox wrote:
| I love how this read me is as much about woodwork as it is about
| software
| mfi wrote:
| I truly enjoy working on projects that includes both areas,
| interesting tech and woodwork :)
| mfi wrote:
| I just finished my latest project, building an AI art
| installation at home, generating 100 % unique artworks on the
| fly. Just push the button below the screen and another one will
| be displayed. When the button has been pushed, the old artwork is
| deleted and can't be retrieved again.
|
| Setup:
|
| * An Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX was used for all logic, machine
| learning inference, art kiosk GUI etc.
|
| * A StyleGAN was used to generate the artworks, trained on ~5k
| images of abstract art.
|
| * A passive infrared sensor (SR602) was integrated with the
| Jetson to reduce screen burn-in. When no movement has been
| detected around the installation within a pre-defined threshold,
| the screen shuts off until movement is detected.
|
| * A custom control box was built, encapsulating most of the
| electronics.
| jonbraun wrote:
| Cool installation! What was the process of obtaining the 5k
| abstract art images?
| mfi wrote:
| I scraped them from various art websites.
| TuringNYC wrote:
| >> Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX
|
| Curious -- since you're only doing the inference/generation on
| the frame, and since you're not doing it all the time, did you
| need a Jetson or would an RPI have sufficed? Did you test
| inference speeds across different edge compute options?
| dheera wrote:
| Yeah I think the way I'd do it (personally) is have an RPi
| constantly generate new images in the background and cache
| them until storage is maxed out, then when you hit the button
| it just fetches the next image from cache.
|
| That would allow the frame to be somewhat lower power and
| also decrease ventilation requirements -- no fan needed.
| raisedbyninjas wrote:
| Is it me or is this more of a woodworking guide than an AI
| art guide? I only see a small blurb to _put AI art code
| here_. Presumably the button /replenish image dir. is a
| seed component to the AI. I suppose that further removing
| the art generation from the installation diminishes the
| magic of art. The engineer in me would further trim this
| down by pre-generating art on a PC and slap it on an SD
| card plugged into basic picture digital frame. Or dispense
| with storage and connect it to Wifi to poll
| AIArtAsAService.com.
| bluerival wrote:
| The difference between this project and a digital photo
| frame is as you've described - The AI generation. I think
| the destruction makes it special too, if every unique
| image disappears forever at the click of a button.
| binarymax wrote:
| Really beautifully done. Thank you for sharing it with us!
|
| Quick question: can you use the Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX to
| train a model? Or can it only be used for inference?
| Quarrel wrote:
| Ok, so this is cool as fuck.
|
| I don't think much of the actually produced art, but the fact
| that you laid out your whole process makes this drool-worthy.
| Now it is just a challenge as to- can I do better?
|
| Great job.
| wombatmobile wrote:
| Nobody could include more individual photos in the how to.
|
| This one has how many gazillion photos?
| PebblesRox wrote:
| Oooh, next step is to create an AI picture frame that
| generates images based on the photo documentation of its
| own creation.
| mfi wrote:
| Glad you like it!
|
| Of course you can! Give it a try and share it afterwards ;)
| throwaway158497 wrote:
| Cool project. How much does this setup cost you?
| mfi wrote:
| Hmm, I think The Frame 32" was about $500 and the Nvidia
| Xavier NX costed as much (including import taxes etc). The
| other stuff (cable channels, screws, MDF etc) was probably
| around $50. So a total of around ~$1050.
| dheera wrote:
| Interesting! I built a generative art frame based on "{Shan,
| Shui}" by Lingdong Huang
|
| https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/
|
| but also planning to use it for neural-net based generative
| art. I wasn't planning on putting a NX in it though, I was
| thinking of just keeping the Pi Zero in there and have it do
| all computations in "the cloud" or on a Nano/Xavier box sitting
| elsewhere on the same network.
|
| I'm currently working on a 3-panel version of the above:
|
| https://imgur.com/a/3IfKpb3
|
| I didn't make my own frame though, I designed the dimensions
| and had it custom-built by a frame company, which was
| surprisingly affordable.
| mfi wrote:
| That is amazing!! I actually looked into buying an E-ink
| screen for this project, but decided not to due to the cost
| and the lack of compatibility.
|
| Was the E-ink screen simple to work with?
| dheera wrote:
| As long as you get the HAT, yes. I had to desolder the
| header and solder on a 90-degree header to get my low-
| profile layout, that was a pain. They weren't able to ship
| me a HAT without pins soldered :(
|
| The documentation is sparse but they do have one C++ demo
| example and that's pretty much good enough as a reference
| to do whatever you want.
|
| One thing I will caution is to NEVER unplug or plug the
| display while the board is powered on, I fried one display
| by doing that, but Waveshare was nice enough to replace it
| for free one I got a hold of some employee's WeChat.
| tyingq wrote:
| This is more interesting to me as I'd never suspect it was
| generated art.
| dheera wrote:
| Yeah that was what I was going for, guests who come would
| not even know that there are electronics in the frame, and
| suddenly the art would change every now and then.
|
| Requires drilling a fat hole in the wall to send the USB
| cable down behind the drywall but meh, needing to patch
| drywall when moving out isn't the end of the world, usually
| if you chat up the maintainence folk you can get some extra
| paint of exactly the right color and spackle/paint it
| yourself.
| at_a_remove wrote:
| What would be amusing is gaze detection such that the art
| would change only when someone wasn't looking for a
| while, and then maybe only "advance the scroll" an inch
| or two.
| spoonjim wrote:
| What country uses those round black outlets?
| mfi wrote:
| I'm from Sweden :)
| Guillaume86 wrote:
| Red countries on this map: https://world-power-
| plugs.com/plugs-outlets-types
| Justin_K wrote:
| Awesome! I'd recommend running your cables behind the drywall,
| the look is very clean!
| mfi wrote:
| Yeah, that would've been optimal, but it's also a lot more
| work, so I decided to use cable channels in the end.
| prions wrote:
| This is really cool! I'd love to seed the GAN with my own
| artwork and generate new pieces in my style
| kamilszybalski wrote:
| this comment seeded an interesting idea! Many artists and
| photographers want to get into the NFT space but they don't
| necessarily have experience in digital art creation.
|
| If you could leverage AI to generate digital art based on
| real artist/photographer inputs, perhaps you could create a
| nice little marketplace business.. or maybe just a simple AI
| generator plugin for an existing marketplace..
| didntknowya wrote:
| i don't know any real artists who actually want to get into
| the NFT space, only con-artists.
| tartoran wrote:
| Most artists (with some exceptions) want to have nothing to
| do with AI generative art. They will simply continue to
| produce art the way they do with older technologies such as
| paints and brushes, musical instruments, film equipment,
| writing tools, and so on. Art making involves a process, a
| state of mind and there's always a human behind it who
| digests everything around them and spit something out. All
| these imitative AI art are beautiful in their own way but
| really have no substance; once the wow factor weans out
| they won't have much of a leg to stand on in my opinion.
| Art making is a self discovering journey at the same time.
|
| Having said that, I'm curious and somewhat excited to see
| how these will evolve. As I said, I find them beautiful. As
| a painter myself there is nothing out there that will make
| me not paint. Sure, I sometimes use tools but there's
| always the me in there who is in control or driven by my
| human instinct.
| artur_makly wrote:
| Everything is a remix.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd-dqUuvLk4
| kamilszybalski wrote:
| That's good insight. I am not an artist but I've also run
| this idea by a friend who is. He loves the idea and is
| curious what a technological interpretation of his work
| might look like. He's also interested in how we might use
| those interpretations to create a new segment of
| collections for this brand.
| mfi wrote:
| Thanks! Depending on how many artworks you've created, it
| might be difficult to train a GAN network on them (due to
| overfitting). What you might try is to train one network with
| a lot of random artworks, then use a Style-transfer network
| to convert the generated pieces into your style.
| aketchum wrote:
| couldn't you use something like style transfer to take your
| own artwork's style and apply it to the generated art?
| mfi wrote:
| Yeah exactly, that's what I meant!
| sandGorgon wrote:
| do you have the code for training ? i wasnt able to find it
| in your repo. That would be so cool!
| mfi wrote:
| I left it out as I wanted people to use their own
| generative art. Here's the implementation I used:
| https://github.com/taki0112/StyleGAN-Tensorflow
| bravura wrote:
| Do you actually want to disseminate your work and have
| many other people try it? Or is that not actually a goal.
|
| Right now it really feels like this isn't a priority.
| Which is fine.
|
| But if it is a priority that other people replicate your
| work, I'm not sure you're making this as easy for people
| as possible.
| mfi wrote:
| My intension is not for people to replicate my work (the
| trained GAN-network), but rather supply a tutorial over
| how to build the installation. Then people can add their
| own generative art/code. It could be ML-generated, or
| traditional "code-art".
| phkahler wrote:
| Or seed it with XKCD.
| KingFelix wrote:
| Thats what I am thinking about, what kind of images to train
| on
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| Samsung phones come with an adapter that can output to HDMI. Is
| there a phone app that could do something like this on a TV?
| dogma1138 wrote:
| You can probably run it on a SmartTV directly...
| lazlee wrote:
| I'm curious about, beyond time and labor, how much $$$ the
| project ran you.
| mfi wrote:
| The Frame 32" and Nvidia Xavier NX cost ~$500 each (including
| import taxes etc), the rest (cable channels, screws etc) ~$50.
| So a total of around $1050
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