Turning Neural Networks Upside Down

[KRAFTWERK]

This is very interesting, but also sad and boring...
My first reaction to it was of pure curiosity, but I see no meaning of making bad versions of old masters works. Make someting new instead!
just my 2 cents... this fantasic feature should be used in a different way, these look alike images just makes me bored.

[cKleinhuis]

the functionality is jaw dropping, the creativity to use it comes now

[kram1032]

Some of those certainly are better than others. This is just brilliant:


Currently it's probably better as source for inspiration than as directly usable final results though.
But that's along the lines of what I was saying before: I'm sure computers will eventually be capable of creativity, and they have come a long way, but this isn't it yet.

[Syntopia]

Kyle McDonald has made a lot of progress on this: https://medium.com/@kcimc/comparing-artificial-artists-7d889428fce4

If you look at his Twitter stream, there are some examples of animations: https://twitter.com/kcimc/media (I'm afraid his latest one is NSFW)

Artistic potential aside, I think these techniques are extremely impressive. And there seems to be much potential. Image mixing different artists or applying the same techniques to audio or litterature.

[Fractal universe]

Now they make a fractal zooms only with deepdream.

One zoom that I like particularly begin with noise, and the patterns appear progressively.
I let you watch it.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/dbQh1I_uvjo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/dbQh1I_uvjo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

[3dickulus]

ok, that one is interesting 

[Chillheimer]

dammit, I'm too slow. I also have a deepzoom using deepdream in the workings.. will take a few more days..

but I actually came here to post this list of deepstyle images:
http://kylemcdonald.net/stylestudies/

also, here is a tutorial how to make deepstyle images by yourself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/3jwl76/how_anyone_can_create_deep_style_images/

[kram1032]

That latest patch of style studies shows that this technique still doesn't work wonders.
The "styles" are pretty good at picking up color palettes, but actual strokes are only really carried over if the style image is fairly similar to the input image. - it looks like the input and style image need fairly matching amounts of noise. Then the result picture switches the noise "style".
Proposal: Add Gaussian noise to your input image (specifically, if you can be selective about this, to overly smooth areas) and see if that improves things.

[hgjf2]

Now they make a fractal zooms only with deepdream.

One zoom that I like particularly begin with noise, and the patterns appear progressively.
I let you watch it.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/dbQh1I_uvjo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/dbQh1I_uvjo&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

This type of fractal was been used for the clip "Thrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber" at the math abstract dots paintings

[hgjf2]

COOL
 

[schizo]

Can't resist to post this deep dream. It is an older image created with Vchira and runs well through the deep dream. I especially like the fox in the upper right corner. 

[kram1032]

There is now software out to train your own perception network. With it, I think, it should be possible to do deep-dream-like imagery with _any_ image set you like.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/train-your-own-image-classifier-with.html
Of course training one of these on your own will require tons of data and lots of computing power but perhaps you could feed it something like a large library of fractals, making it guess what specific rendering technique or formula or what not was used.
If you then were to use it in Deep Mind, it would turn everything into fractals instead of dogs or buildings (the two variants that already have been around)

[kram1032]

News from this department: Large improvements were made as seen here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/3lp9eN5JE2A&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/3lp9eN5JE2A&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

This is the currently published state of the art:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03616v1.pdf
But if you watch the video, at around 51min into the presentation he shows off even better results than in this paper. The latest results are almost life-like. They look like taken by cameras that were too drunk to drive but no longer like ones tripping on LSD.

[TheRedshiftRider]

I found another article. These images are amazing.
http://www.boredpanda.com/inceptionism-neural-network-deep-dream-art

[Tglad]

Wow, that's the most insanely impressive program I have seen in years.

I noticed someone crossed a leopard:

with a Mandelbulb3D creation:

to make: