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1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Compare with this https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5999.... :)

I did get this as well! I thought it was some sort of version of Malevich:)

I used plenty of Malevich while training, so that makes sense. Glad you enjoyed.

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It looks like the 10 first ones are mangas. I wonder if there is a pool of pictures the AI gets inspiration from

This is just a gallery of images uploaded to a Wordpress website

Correct! I pre-generated 10,000 random seeds so I wouldn't have to rent a 24/7 GPU. The current plan is to upload a new slate of 10,000 each month.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1878.... looks really like cave painting

I got a clown: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5498....

This disturbed me in all the right ways.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Cool! Please use this technology to make a 4K video of an infinite zoom through the art. i.e. generate an image frame, zoom in 1% near the center of the image, re-anneal the art to fill in missing resolution, repeat. It would be analogous to the infinite exploration of the Mandelbrot fractal set. It might help us intuit the black box of the algorithm as well if it reaches some periodic local minima and keeps reproduc…

Excellent idea. I'll see what I can do.

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I think AI is currently able to generate images I find pleasant to look at, but they have no impact on me beyond that momentary enjoyment. It is still decoration and not yet art, according to my personal definitions. When I can tell an AI to make an image about the Spanish Civil War and it produces Guernica, then I will be impressed in the way human artists impress me. And then we will have a powerful new tool to com…

This doesn't sound like it would be unrealistic. I think this can be partially solved by two systems: one that paints and one that finds the best painting to match a current event (in the form of a topic). The latter system could be trained on a set of paintings and corresponding topics or meanings, and then uses this training to match newly generated paintings to topics/meanings.

Correct. This is actually quite doable with word embedding or image classification of a topic, semantic analysis, and then providing those as input to a network like the one I used for 1SecondPainting. I love the future.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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Congratulations on the project! This looks very similar to my project: https://art42.net I've used the higher resolution model 1024, and I also chosen to generate the picture in advance. It's expensive to generate them realtime.

Thank you. I love the clear, intelligent user interface of your site - it's given me a lot of inspiration for future projects. Keep in touch!

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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This isn't live/dynamically generated, but if it was, what would be a good way of architecting it in a basic implementation? Say you keep the WordPress site, do you then just send a request to some endpoint that is served by python which keeps the model in memory for quick responses?

Good thinking. Yes, that is correct.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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The language on the landing page suggests that every time you click Try Now a new image is generated. > Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists. Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site. Fake it 'til you make it!

The fine-print at the bottom explains it: "On a Tesla T4, it takes on average 0.173 seconds per novel generation." I don't think you can expect someone to pay for T4 instance 24/7 for some hobby project.

This is correct. I agree with many of the commentators below - I could have been clearer. I simply didn't want to pay for a 24/7 GPU to generate on-the-spot (a little short on funds at the moment), instead opting to replace each series of 10,000 paintings once per month. Glad I could provide enjoyment to as many people as I did in the meanwhile!

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The fact that the link says “Try Now” instead of “next image” or something like that is implying that you are using the AI generation when you click the button.

Agreed. I think that the button gives the implication. I was focusing on the quoted part, but you're right.

Completely fair assessment. Thanks for the input. I look up to Gwern quite heavily, so seeing myself referenced in the same sentence is nice - cheers.

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Seems like the author is a fan. https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/3.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.png

Likely they used transfer learning on an anime face model.

Close! I used anime to test the basic functionality/UI of the site. Transfer learning was in fact done on the FFHQ512 dataset from Nvidia (I figured the complexity of its features was a little higher, which would lend itself well to abstract textures).
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