I did this for windows (it might work for linux, not sure, someone might have to change the filepaths into different slashes or something, I don't have linux).

1. install Python (I installed Anaconda)
install pip (if it's not already installed, some documentation says Python comes with pip now)
pip install mechanize (type in a command line/window)
pip install easygui (type in a command line/window)

2. install ImageMagick (used python to call for scaling up and cropping image)

3. extract the .zip below onto your Desktop (or somewhere else). It contains 2 files, one is .py file, the other is the .html it needs to use to submit to deepdreamgenerator.com


4. from a command line/window, change directory into where you have your zip extracted, type
python deepdreamweb.py
a. It'll prompt you to select an image input file
b. It'll prompt you to find deepdream_submit.html
c. It'll prompt you for number of frames to deepdream before it starts zooming
d. It'll prompt you for number of frames to zoom (it'll deepdream each time it zooms)
e. It'll prompt you for percentage to zoom

That's it and let it run and generate dream_xxxx.jpg (where xxxx is a number starting at 0000)
files into the same directory as your input image.



This is designed for this post: deep dream generator art - post your results here

sometimes the websubmit would get a bad response. so I added code to repeat trying until successfull in latest version (deepdreamweb2.zip).

I like using this script much better than Macro (GhostMouse) method because it's faster and you can still use your computer while this script runs.

It seems to sort of work OK in Linux, I did not submit anything but the dialogs appeared.

EDIT: It's not working in Linux when I actually tried to submit an image.

I don't know, if it did run into problems i can only imagine it's the forward and backward slashes...that might cause a problem in filepaths.
You should try it with 1 frame before zoom and 1 frame to zoom so total just 2 frames (only about 30seconds) to test and see if it works on linux too

I have no idea what you are supposed to do with this so just for the heck of it I ran the dream generator on a picture of a house at the corner. It is cool

hehee nice.

It almost looks like a fun house at a side show.

there's a bug in the script previously, it was taking the center of zoomed image...i made it center in latest version (deepdreamweb3.zip).

This was created before the off-center bug was discovered but i'll share it anyways


Also you can open multiple command windows and run the script on multiple images to save even more time.
I am running 3 of them right now.

That is beyond awesome Tran.

Does your script also can repeat without scale (in order to amplify the details)?

i made it for windows, so now you have no excuse to not generate a video

yeah just enter how many frames you want for before zoom (this will call deep dream multiple times without scaling)..and enter 1 for zoom (because that's the minimum right now) and delete (not use) the last frame.

Your web interface works, but when I placed it in my Inkscape python directory, it says missing python26.dll.

not sure what that's about.

When I double-click the web link, it works. You point to a file and the it feeds that image to the generator. What doesn't work is the python script itself. If I run it, I get the missing dll error.

You have to install python, and follow the steps i mentioned.
I don't think you can use it with python that comes with inkscape or gimp.

Ah; a little reluctance to mess with python full Tran. Oh well.

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