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Knitters teamed up with a neural-network creator to generate new shapes
- allenz 9y agoMore pictures: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collection https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collect...
- wool_gather 9y agoThanks for sharing that link. There are some really beautiful pieces in there! Natural, but with a strange edge. Regular enough to be pleasing, but unpredictable enough to be interesting. This one in particular https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collection/slideshow?fullscreen=1&start=74308574 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skyknit-the-collect... reminds me of Wolfram's timeplot CA renderings.
- mkl 9y agoIt would be interesting to see this combined with simulation [1], which might itself need another neural network (or manually written "fixer") to interpret the ambiguous instructions. [1] Kaldor et al - "Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level" https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/publications/SG08-knit.html https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~srm/publications/SG08-knit.html
- bhouston 9y agoIt seems like overly optimistic interpretations of crappy/noisy neural network output. I could be wrong though.
- pacaro 9y agoThe comment about 19th century patterns resonated. I don’t knit well, but I do tatting, and original vintage patterns are often woefully incomplete, there seemed to be this expectation that you knew the basics and could work out what was missing yourself. As The article points out, knowing the intent of the pattern usually helps resolve ambiguity
- justonepost 9y agoWeirdly high rated though. Lots of pictures. Clearly someone likes this. Something is happening here. Any knitters that can explain?
- cimmanom 9y agoWhy do we like Conways game of life? Why are we interested in AI-generated art? I found the outcomes delightful and hilarious (there are lots of photos in one of the other sites linked to from the article). Perhaps more interesting is the collaboration between humans and AI to turn the AI's "imagination" into something that physically exists.
- cardamomo 9y agoThe naivety of these systems leads to output that we perceive as creative or playful. Personally, I've used simple Markov models to create texts or melodies that I then selectively recombine to write new music. The computer-created material is familiar but different enough from what I or a human might produce that it leads me to push my own creativity in new directions.
- gajeam 9y agoIn this piece, Alexis Madrigal gives one of the all time most straightforward descriptions of how neural nets work. Kudos.
- paulie_a 9y agoI am usually not a fan of puns, but skyknit is gold