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

Post by mfi » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC

dheera wrote: post #74

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…

Interesting! I built a generative art frame based on "{Shan, Shui}" by Lingdong Huang https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/ but also planning to use it for neural-net based generative art. I wasn't planning on putting a NX in it though, I was thinking of just keeping the Pi Zero in there and have it do all computations in "the cloud" or on a Nano/Xavier box sitting elsewhere on the same network. I'm currently workin…

Post by artur_makly » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

Post by artur_makly » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

tartoran wrote: post #89

kamilszybalski wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this comment seeded an interesting idea! Many artists and photographers want to get into the NFT space but they don't necessarily have experience in digital art creation. If you could leverage AI to generate digital art based on real artist/photographer inputs, perhaps you could create a nice little marketplace business.. or maybe just a simple AI generator plugin for an existing marketplace..

Most artists (with some exceptions) want to have nothing to do with AI generative art. They will simply continue to produce art the way they do with older technologies such as paints and brushes, musical instruments, film equipment, writing tools, and so on. Art making involves a process, a state of mind and there's always a human behind it who digests everything around them and spit something out. All these imitativ…

Post by fksadfji12 » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:04 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #103

Worth considering that you could purchase a very good painting from a local artist or gallery for much less than the money and time that was spent on this project. While I get that this is a fun project, an actual work of art will provide much more enrichment over the many years that it will outlive an AI art installation.

Post by mfi » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

henearkr wrote: post #92

Maybe a stupid question, but why the Samsung connect box if the Jetson already has a HDMI output?