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Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by binarymax »

mfi wrote: post #2

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 gene…

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?

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by swayvil »

huntercross wrote: post #61

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

We could call art, "made-objects that get you high with beauty"

We could also call art, "byproducts of artistic (beauty-guided) action"

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by mfi »

Quarrel wrote: post #84
mfi wrote: post #2

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 gene…

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.

Glad you like it!

Of course you can! Give it a try and share it afterwards ;)

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by mfi »

aketchum wrote: post #98
mfi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

couldn't you use something like style transfer to take your own artwork's style and apply it to the generated art?

Yeah exactly, that's what I meant!

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by quickthrower2 »

reacharavindh wrote: post #106

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 gall…

What about an android tablet?

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by mfi »

bravura wrote: post #107
mfi wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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".

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by PebblesRox »

wombatmobile wrote: post #100
Quarrel wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nobody could include more individual photos in the how to. This one has how many gazillion photos?

Oooh, next step is to create an AI picture frame that generates images based on the photo documentation of its own creation.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by mfi »

Justin_K wrote: post #85
mfi wrote: post #2

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 gene…

Awesome! I'd recommend running your cables behind the drywall, the look is very clean!

Yeah, that would've been optimal, but it's also a lot more work, so I decided to use cable channels in the end.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by mfi »

throwaway158497 wrote: post #101
mfi wrote: post #2

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 gene…

Cool project. How much does this setup cost you?

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.
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