So to put it briefly google taught an AI to look for recognisable stuff within pictures. Fed it a whole lot of stuff in the form of animals, people, faces, cars, etc so that it might find them in patterns. Some tweaks of the code let it loop over and over, etc.

Essentially you can give it a starter image, or random fuzziness, and let it dream up whatever it can.

You can read more here. Worth a look.
ai.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html

The results are pretty stunning. Not just because it's an AI actually "dreaming up" images, but also some of them are just stunning outright.

(some of them are also really trippy, or pretty dark, or as close to acid visuals as you'lll ever find..)

I thought I'd share some.

from pic of feet in thongs

results can be animated

Wow. Is that Sinead O'Conner?

Some of those images look like they're from the movie 'The Thing'.

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byf said..
Wow. Is that Sinead O'Conner?

I think you might be onto it..

anyway I'm tired for tonight but there's going to be heaps more of these it'll hit mainstream news sooner or later I guess, if it hasn't already..
there's no easy installer at the moment but if you're really really keen to try it just do these easy steps

Must be on some freekin good hydro

Definitely some post-impressionism influence in there.

This looks way interesting. Will be looking at this weekend and feeding in some, er, interesting images.

Looks great!
Reminds me of mandelbrot set.

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GavGav said..

I was about to say that it's a mandelbrot set with Johnny Depp in it

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Looks great!
Reminds me of mandelbrot set.

The Mandelbrot set is just ridiculous. We wasted a bit of time fiddling about with it years ago. Back in the day you didn't have Seabreeze to take a break from fabricating power point presentations.

The formula is so simple. You form a complex number from the X Y co-ordinates of a pixel on the screen. Then do this little


bit of maths and see how many times you have to repeat it until the magnitude of z exceeds a certain value. If you only do it once, n= 1 you set the pixel to black, if you have to do it twice, to n=2 you make the pixel pink, 3 times blue etc. Do that for every pixel on the screen and voila the screen is painted Mandelbrot. i think you have to fiddle with C the constant a bit to get in the zone. The only tricky bit is getting a zoom function going. This one also appears to have an automatic centre reference shift to stay on the interesting part. 10 ^ 275 and it's still going!!

You got to admire Mandelbrot coming up with it. And he only had a black and white paper printer to look at the output with!

My first implimentation of this was using Turbo Pascal on a x286 IBM AT PC at Uni. As a joke with a fellow student, I wrote one in COBOL and ran it on a VAX II minicomputer over night printing out the set with "*" characters on a 132 character carriage dot matrix printer. "Back in the day" (Hey, I was a bored and broke !)