Artificial Neural Network art

Matera · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2013 **Posts:** 143

Some mind-blowing-ish examples of what happens when an ANN tries too hard
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-mystery-photo-haunting-reddit-appears-to-be-image-recognition-gone-very-weird

Some of the pics remind me of wild GIMP experiments!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12819

Definitely eclectic and wonderfully strange. Looks like something that I might have concocted. Does that mean I'm a bot? lolol

Matera · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2013 **Posts:** 143

I knew it! I knew it! lol

trandoductin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:23 pm **(#4)**

I found those images disturbing.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12819

Ah; come on Tran. lol

Besides, I have to defend us bots.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:03 pm **(#6)**

what must be going through a bot's mind is probably even more warped. :hehe

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12819

Never denied that did I? lololol

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:47 pm **(#8)**

matera: that article was really fascinating, thank you for sharing.

lyle: :rofl

you're a bit of a batty bot, aren't you?

wonder if anyone has started to exploit the possibilities of the technique yet - to make image generators. that would be so much fun!

Clouds · **Joined:** Jan 09, 2015 **Posts:** 22

How cool! They're kind of like fractals based on opinion rather than hard mathematics. They're especially fractal-like in the last collection of pictures at the end of the article.

That one picture captioned "How an early neural layer thinks about these addaxes" looks like a pretty desirable faux-paint effect to have as a filter!

Matera · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2013 **Posts:** 143

The fractality of it all is what tickles me de most

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Jun 23, 2015 4:19 am **(#11)**

Could be the source of inspiration. If they created an image generator like this, I would definitely want one.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:48 pm **(#12)**

Erisian wrote:

Could be the source of inspiration. If they created an image generator like this, I would definitely want one.

You're in luck.
I read an article here: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-deep-dream.htm
and in the article there was a link to: http://deepdreamgenerator.com/
Which i just tried to get the below, still think it's disturbing though.
input

output

ran again on output

again

again it just gets creepier and creepier

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2015 5:54 pm **(#13)**

Less creepy, eyes & teeth variation

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:43 am **(#14)**

trandoductin: wow, great find!!! and creepy images indeed, but very interesting too.

i found that these images go extremely well together with certain g'mic filters - for example graphic novel - and i do like odinbc and mask off certain parts. the artwork you get out of this is weird, magical, decorative, disturbing and veeeery inspiring!

don't think gainsbourough would have recognised his blue boy

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:16 pm **(#15)**

That is awesome AnMal!!!

I thought I would try with a couple of 3D fractals.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:22 pm **(#16)**

many images reveal weird creatures/pets.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:45 pm **(#17)**

i've just made a separate thread for images like these.

erisian: i knew your fractals would come out awesome in deep dream!! i want more of this, more more more!

trandoductin: i think that must be because of how we use image search engines to find cute animals all the time. if people searched more for sensible things like paisley patterns the deep dream generator would be better at creating paisleys. at least that's what i hope. :hehe