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‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by lotyrin »

fractallyte wrote: post #50
jkscm wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another interesting problem would be the generation of filler pictures (I don't know the correct term). Normally there is a person who draws keyframes at a much lower framerate. Other animators then fill in the frames between to increase the framerate.

That's the problem with animation using bitmaps (or physical artwork): the in-betweens have to be manually drawn. Hence much animation is outsourced to studios - typically in Korea, and occasionally Japan - consisting of armies of animators and artists. With vector graphics - where the lines and fills are mathematical objects - automatic 'tweening' becomes possible. Anime Studio ( http://my.smithmicro.com/anime-studi…

There's a lot of work to take advantage of perceptual quirks of human vision that happens in tweens by humans that these algorithms don't account for (at least last I knew).

Sometimes a perfect interpolation, or even something based on a physical model doesn't feel right, isn't what is expected.

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by onetwotree »

Neural style transfer is extremely fun to play with.

If you have a system with a recent-ish graphics card (I'm doing fine with my GTX 970), put a linux on it and check out the many GitHub projects that implement this stuff (some of the tools will only work on linux).

It's a great way to start learning about deep learning and GPU based computation , which are starting to look like very good things to have on your resume.

Plus, you get to make cool shit like this that you can actually show to your friends. I'm getting more interested in the text generation stuff as well too - I'd love to make a Trump speech generator :-)

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by onetwotree »

stepvhen wrote: post #7

I have two opinions: 1) I don't think cubism transfers well into a motion picture format, 2) I think these experiments, as they are currently, attempt to merge two styles and end up with neither, and nothing novel in its place; there is little Kubrick or Picasso in the final piece. I think it's superficial and doesn't do either source justice.

I agree that neural style transfer doesn't mean much in terms of art, but it sure makes some cool looking stuff!

Also, as I've mentioned in my top-level comment, it's a great way to explore GPU programming and deep learning.

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by onetwotree »

mockery wrote: post #33

This is cool, but the frame-to-frame variance is distracting. I really want to see this reimplemented with temporal constraints a-la this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU

Oh wow, that looks amazing! I wonder how long it takes to transform those clips though...basic neural style transfer takes a few minutes on a standard gaming rig, so it probably takes a big machine or a few hours to do this.

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by onetwotree »

nsimoneaux wrote: post #6

"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care." On the first moon landing, quoted in The New York Times, (1969-07-21). https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Curious about his feelings regarding this work. (I find it beautiful.)

Haha the guy was a really top notch troll.

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

tripzilch wrote: post #86
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #71

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Jesus what a curmudgeon. I love how solidly he bought into the whole pretentious modern 'artiste' personality that is still being emulated today. I guess having a world weary 'fuck you' attitude is probably the social signaling you need to do to get your stuff into high-end galleries.

have you read other quotes about the moon landing? in terms of pretentiousness this is rather mild, he didn't even try to speak for "mankind" or "all the people on this earth".

Actually he was a communist and painted portraits of Stalin. I suspect this was just a case of sour grapes.

Re: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

scrumper wrote: post #74
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus what a curmudgeon. I love how solidly he bought into the whole pretentious modern 'artiste' personality that is still being emulated today. I guess having a world weary 'fuck you' attitude is probably the social signaling you need to do to get your stuff into high-end galleries.

Did he buy in, or was he the source? A bit like how you can hear Chuck Yaeger in every US airline pilot's calm drawl.

European bohemianism predates Picasso. I've always assumed that attitude was just another flavor of bohemianism.
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