A novice painter might set brush to canvas aiming to create a stunning sunset landscape — craggy, snow-covered peaks reflected in a glassy lake — only to end up with something that looks more like a multi-colored inkblot.
But a deep learning model developed by NVIDIA Research can do just the opposite: it turns rough doodles into photorealistic masterpieces with breathtaking ease. The tool leverages generative adversarial networks, or GANs, to convert segmentation maps into lifelike images.
The interactive app using the model, in a lighthearted nod to the post-Impressionist painter, has been christened GauGAN.
In high school we had a teacher who was fired for touching female students inappropriately on the shoulder/back. A few months later I saw him working at a local gas station. Your comment reminded me of that
That’s a bit of a stretch! But just results if you ask me, too much of that crap is left overlooked and goes without consequence. I don’t know what’s wrong with men, and furthermore don’t know whats wrong with the judicial system when it comes to such cases. It’s terribly disgusting.
I imagine Adobe Creator 10.3 will offer voice activated creation mode. You simply talk to your computer and it paints / designs your words / thoughts. We still need a human with a good design sense, a person who understands how communication works, how to build a brand, etc., but all the technical complexity is removed. Scary, but it was scary a few decades ago, when the first Mac arrived on the scene, and we didn’t have to manually cut and paste no more to create art.
I’m currently building, what I call, the DesignBot:Auto - A design droid of sorts to replace graphic designers. If I’m going to be sunk by automation, I might as well be the one to make it!
Currently it just shouts “INPUT DESIGN PARAMETERS” and doesn’t actually DO anything. But soon, just you wait,
I often make that list in my head too; drummer in a Led Zeppelin tribute band, slinging grilled meats in a food truck, etc. Then I remember back when I first noticed that if you’re willing to handle raw sewage, you can pretty much write your own ticket. Not the same aromatic classification as the food truck, but still…
Does bazaar music have a defined quality. I vaguely remember music while wandering the Khan el Khalili in Egypt…(not the store, the actual street vendor area.)
