william_kent
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A thread for discussion and demonstration of algorithmic "art" - either procedurally generated or created by AI ( neural networks, machine learning, etc., )
Some examples of procedurally generated pictures:
Lingdong Huang is a bit of a genius - here's an example of "flowers in the style of a Chinese watercolour" - these can be generated on this webpage: nonflowers
![1628865308258.png 1628865308258.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7672-e6864278c627568642bf45d3d241c9f7.jpg)
Lingdong Huang's procedurally generated fish drawings: fishdraw
![1628865496041.png 1628865496041.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7673-950193d0bc13f74f805317d994999cfe.jpg)
Lingdong Huang has also created another page which generates a "Procedurally-generated vector-format infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape"
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The last couple of months has seen huge strides in the AI generated art world - this article, Alien Dreams, describes some of the latest developments and touches on some of the philosophical issues - can one take credit for content that has been generated by a computer, is the "artist" now an editor ( I refuse to use the "C" word here ), is it art if there is no human intent behind it?
I've been playing with this google codebook, VQGAN + CLIP ( Codebook Sampling ), where you can provide a text prompt, an image prompt, or both text & image. I've posted some of the results in the treeshagging thread, but to avoid cluttering that up, I'll post some here
Here's one inspired by a request from @WashYourHands - "All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams" in the style of Max Ernst
![1628866216877.png 1628866216877.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7674-6f77b24e4efa534f2315232ceb73a844.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
I've ended up generating quite a few based on WYH's choice of phrase + "in the style of Max Ernst" and other artists...
![1628882736644.png 1628882736644.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7690-2d50fac062ccbc2cccad9e34e0016c2d.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628866785896.png 1628866785896.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7675-fbf24b47980c25e1308eb673d27dcef3.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867500323.png 1628867500323.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7676-4b989457ecebff767439d763228d14e4.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867893769.png 1628867893769.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7678-380ed0e1c2032982e826e021bc7115cf.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867941329.png 1628867941329.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7679-84da49d407c12839669b8617699fef6a.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628868399184.png 1628868399184.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7680-3ee2a82802bbe2baa8a832d67a6d9139.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628868547676.png 1628868547676.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7681-ed022bc4069f0f039c393be47890ef2f.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
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My personal rule is that there should be no "post-production" by humans
I suppose a real "digital artist" pipeline would be generation -> NFT, but why should anyone pay for AI art? People are charging for this stuff though...
Some examples of procedurally generated pictures:
Lingdong Huang is a bit of a genius - here's an example of "flowers in the style of a Chinese watercolour" - these can be generated on this webpage: nonflowers
![1628865308258.png 1628865308258.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7672-e6864278c627568642bf45d3d241c9f7.jpg)
Lingdong Huang's procedurally generated fish drawings: fishdraw
![1628865496041.png 1628865496041.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7673-950193d0bc13f74f805317d994999cfe.jpg)
Lingdong Huang has also created another page which generates a "Procedurally-generated vector-format infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape"
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The last couple of months has seen huge strides in the AI generated art world - this article, Alien Dreams, describes some of the latest developments and touches on some of the philosophical issues - can one take credit for content that has been generated by a computer, is the "artist" now an editor ( I refuse to use the "C" word here ), is it art if there is no human intent behind it?
I've been playing with this google codebook, VQGAN + CLIP ( Codebook Sampling ), where you can provide a text prompt, an image prompt, or both text & image. I've posted some of the results in the treeshagging thread, but to avoid cluttering that up, I'll post some here
Here's one inspired by a request from @WashYourHands - "All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams" in the style of Max Ernst
![1628866216877.png 1628866216877.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7674-6f77b24e4efa534f2315232ceb73a844.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
I've ended up generating quite a few based on WYH's choice of phrase + "in the style of Max Ernst" and other artists...
![1628882736644.png 1628882736644.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7690-2d50fac062ccbc2cccad9e34e0016c2d.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628866785896.png 1628866785896.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7675-fbf24b47980c25e1308eb673d27dcef3.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867500323.png 1628867500323.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7676-4b989457ecebff767439d763228d14e4.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867893769.png 1628867893769.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7678-380ed0e1c2032982e826e021bc7115cf.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628867941329.png 1628867941329.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7679-84da49d407c12839669b8617699fef6a.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628868399184.png 1628868399184.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7680-3ee2a82802bbe2baa8a832d67a6d9139.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
![1628868547676.png 1628868547676.png](https://www.dissensus.com/data/attachments/7/7681-ed022bc4069f0f039c393be47890ef2f.jpg)
All around the great oaks sang them to sleep and dreams
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My personal rule is that there should be no "post-production" by humans
I suppose a real "digital artist" pipeline would be generation -> NFT, but why should anyone pay for AI art? People are charging for this stuff though...