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1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click
- voisin 6y agoVery cool. It would be great to be able to output to various resolutions for printing/framing.
- estsauver 6y agoI really like this as well, and would love a higher resolution generator. I'd definitely put a few that were generated on a wall.
- bowmessage 6y agoJust pipe the output to an upscaling ai like https://letsenhance.io/ https://letsenhance.io/ /s :)
- maze-le 6y agoWhy is this downvoted? Chained and piped AIs will probably be the next step towards building ever more powerful AI systems. There is even a framework to chain Machine Learning outputs and use other systems to improve: https://singularitynet.io/ https://singularitynet.io/
- Hard_Space 6y agoCommercial site requiring immediate sign-up.
- wimpypistol 6y agoAbsolutely! I was planning on providing this, but wanted to keep the model free of commercial services. There are open-source alternatives out there, though, which I may add support for in the future.
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- curiousgal 6y agoinb4 a French student steals the model and makes a fortune selling this artwork in an auction.
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- wimpypistol 6y agoHmm.. I may or may not speak French. Thanks for the idea.
- d--b 6y agoThere is definitely a recognizable style of NN-generated art. It looks "piecewise-consistent". After a few years of seeing these I find them really boring and unpleasant to look at.
- browsergap 6y agoI disagree. The gestalt works in a lot of these the same way as in gallery abstract art
- jakear 6y agoMany would say the same of the artists the NN’s mimic. Perhaps they’re doing better than you give them credit ;)
- raziel2p 6y agoJudging by the URL of the images themselves these seem to be pre-generated, which makes me think there might have been some human selection process to filter out the badly generated ones. Still some really cool looking art in there, though. I'd be perfectly happy hanging some of these up in my apartment.
- gsleblanc 6y agoThe first ten images are... interesting.
- swilliamsio 6y agoA real life easter egg!
- afberg 6y agoI discovered the same thing. I, umm... don't think these were generated by the neural net?
- leddt 6y agoActually, I'm pretty sure those are generated by a neural net. There are clear artifacts on the images that give it away. Maybe the author experimented with different source material before going for abstract paintings.
- synnick 6y agoThe language on the landing page suggests that every time you click Try Now a new image is generated. > Click the button below for an AI-generated abstract painting. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists. Really though there is a gallery of around 10,000 pngs on a Wordpress site. Fake it 'til you make it!
- glenstein 6y agoI would say that the part you quoted suggests it's not generated on the spot. However,the sentence in the huge font right before the one you quoted could be reasonably interpreted to suggest it's generated on the spot. And as you mention it just looks like a gallery of images that was already generated. It's still cool, but I'm a bit irked at the misleading framing. Gwern's website showed us amazing text generation from GPT-3, that had all been generated beforehand. We didn't have to be tricked into thinking it was generated on the spot to appreciate it, so I don't see why that's needed here.
- Keverw 6y agoVery cool! Wonder how the copyright works on this sorta stuff. Since you fed your AI with actual images of other people art... but a art student would study other people’s art too. So not sure if AI would be seen as a copy or a derivative work. Seems like if you were designing a game and needed random art to fill frames on a wall could be cool to use these. But I feel like the legal part of doing that might be a little murky and unclear and probably even varies by country since still a very new technology.
- gt2 6y agoAlso interested to know opinions on that.
- wimpypistol 6y agoDefinitely something I considered while feeding it a tremendous number of famous paintings (Rothko, Pollock, etc). Considering the nature of random seed generation/traversing through latent space, I don't see a strong legal case to be made for infringement. The law has done crazier things, though, so I'll keep an eye on it.
- captn3m0 6y agoI got this one, which doesn't look abstract: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8.png
- codegladiator 6y agoCompare with this https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5999.png https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5999.... :)
- cosmodisk 6y agoI did get this as well! I thought it was some sort of version of Malevich:)
- wimpypistol 6y agoI used plenty of Malevich while training, so that makes sense. Glad you enjoyed.
- searchableguy 6y agoBoth of your paintings are modern abstract art. ;)
- wimpypistol 6y agoBeauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)
- rplnt 6y agoI got this one and thought it was loading...
- wimpypistol 6y agoThis was my reaction too the first few times I ran the network. I thought I was going crazy.
- fxtentacle 6y agoThis appears to reuse NVIDIA's StyleGAN network, just like artbreeder.io which was previously on HN. If I remember correctly, NVIDIA's terms don't allow non-research use.
- jimbob45 6y agoIf I hung any of these in my house and signed them with random names, no one would be able to tell that they weren’t organically made.
- itronitron 6y agoThat really depends on how you create them. If it's a print then no one would care and it would likely fade out after a few decades. If it's painted on canvas then you've just made yourself a painting so might as well sign your own name :)
- jgotti92 6y agoThere is also quite interesting website http://www.art-supreme.com http://www.art-supreme.com which claims to be the world's first AI gallery.
- zquestz 6y agoAny place to get high res versions of these?
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- keyle 6y agoAt first I thought this would be very gimmicky but I'm impressed. Any way we can could actually get a print version?
- wimpypistol 6y agoThanks for the input. I'm working on adding print functionality as we speak - let you know when it's up.
- ilsel 6y agoartbreeder.com is the true king of it's bunch at the moment.
- itronitron 6y agoI'm curious to know from the people commenting on this thread that they would buy one of these generated paintings whether they would still be interested if the paintings were artworks made by people. I'm guessing that there are two distinct markets here.
- op03 6y ago2 is a very small number. Peoples personalities and needs vary wildly and are ever changing. And there will be some artist sitting somewhere catering to some unimaginable combo. Thats how we end up with a gazillion Youtube videos. On the otherhand look at Netflix (or Tiktok though I am less familiar with it) where there is more sophisticated feedback loop deciding what content get produced. They are generating Art, so much Art that personally speaking, I can barely remember who the creator was or what the creators story is. And I have no problem paying. Yet obviously there are a whole bunch of people very very different from me, part of huge fan clubs and movements built around connection with the creators and their narratives, much like sports fans, political junkies and religions people. So who knows, we might get a cult or two or seven hundred following different Algos soon. The number of those cults (and markets) possible is dependent on the personalities and needs distribution of the population. Zuckerberg probably can generate the data. But it changes like the weather everyday. With love, with war, with age, with depression etc etc etc. Where Art is concerned its definitely more than 2 though.
- jcims 6y agoIf i could get large enough resolution to print something on the order of 20-30" and it still look good i'd spend an hour mining through to find good stuff. Most of them aren't interesting but there are a few that are very pleasing to look at. Plus the backstory is interesting.
- wimpypistol 6y agoYes, good point. I think a major part of the appeal is the backstory. I do love abstract art, though, so I'm probably a non-representative sample :-)
- sabujp 6y agoi seem to be getting the simple gray box quite frequently
- ryankrage77 6y agoVery similar to https://art42.net/ https://art42.net/, which has a larger selection of images (10,000+, whereas 1secodpainting has only 9989 pre-generated images).
- ChrisGranger 6y agohttps://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com/
- the_dripper 6y agothis is exactly what i thought !
- jahnu 6y agohttps://cecinestpasunepeinture.com/ https://cecinestpasunepeinture.com/
- bladelessninja2 6y agothey look awful compared to OP's
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- kingkawn 6y agoMakes a good point while missing the point
- coldcode 6y agoAs a digital abstract artist who also does generative art, I find making the tiny images sort of funny. How about making a 30x30 inch painting? If it takes 1 second to make a tiny 250 pixel image how long would it take your system to make a 9000x9000 image?
- brutt 6y agoYou can upscale tiny image using a different neural network.
- wimpypistol 6y agoCertainly a good point. Unfortunately, the output size is constrained by the training data (which in this case was ~800x800px). I think it would be kind of a pain to find 14,000 9000x9000 images, though, so I don't know if this will ever be able to fulfill this requirement. ;)
- jbverschoor 6y agoSo should every author of the trainingset be attributed?
- newswasboring 6y agoI would like to know how people are judging these painting. I have no knowledge or understanding of abstract paintings. To me the only criteria seems to be does it look "organic", but organic to me is just "not completely random".
- nabla9 6y agoAs Marshall McLuhan said: "Art is anything you can get away with." (and Andy Warhol later quoted him). Art is cultural phenomenon and modern art is even more so. You have to study painting and modern art to be able to judge it in context. In the quality of modern painting is almost completely path dependent and not absolute in any way. Some of those cheap decorative paintings you see on hotel wall would have been masterpiece for artist who sees the style first time in 1920's. Today art critic would not look twice at them because they are just lazily copying style. Modern art scene is just like any scene. Just because it's usually done by adults and rich people are attracted to it does not mean it's any more or less valuable, or more or less sophisticated than some other scene.
- wolco 6y agoThe novelty factor (1920 style looks cheap now because it is copied) is the gamication engine of this scene. You have to be told this is good by an accepted thought leader who was accepted by previously thought leaders. Meanwhile everyone stands around and pretends to say something but are really trying to copy others.
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- alexmingoia 6y agoI think it would look much better without the colored border, or any border.
- oseph 6y agoNeat. I made my own abstract painting generator a while back, and is admittedly much more low-tech and produces mostly similar results. It doesn’t pull from a set of pre-existing images either ;) https://holinaty.com/generative/sketches/?name=029_AutoPaintings https://holinaty.com/generative/sketches/?name=029_AutoPaint...
- mensetmanusman 6y agoCool! Please use this technology to make a 4K video of an infinite zoom through the art. i.e. generate an image frame, zoom in 1% near the center of the image, re-anneal the art to fill in missing resolution, repeat. It would be analogous to the infinite exploration of the Mandelbrot fractal set. It might help us intuit the black box of the algorithm as well if it reaches some periodic local minima and keeps reproducing the same art sequence.
- ellis0n 6y agoIf zoom is possible, depends by method of generation
- wimpypistol 6y agoExcellent idea. I'll see what I can do.
- daiyanze 6y agoThis is amazing! Does it mean that our modern artist can utilize these AI paints to create more abstracted and imaginative pictures? I'll be glad to see that happen when those paints are ready to be sold on Sotheby's or Christies. :D
- lokl 6y agoI think AI is currently able to generate images I find pleasant to look at, but they have no impact on me beyond that momentary enjoyment. It is still decoration and not yet art, according to my personal definitions. When I can tell an AI to make an image about the Spanish Civil War and it produces Guernica, then I will be impressed in the way human artists impress me. And then we will have a powerful new tool to communicate. I would like my own personal Guernica each day to help me learn about something happening in the world.
- mikepurvis 6y agoBut how much of that is context? Is the absence of deeper impact because you're aware that a soulless NN produced these, or is it something intrinsic in them? I'm not at all an art expert, but I definitely looked at several of them and could easily picture a critic describing the significance of the relationship between the shapes and colours.
- lokl 6y agoI feel the same way about many human-produced works, regardless of critics' views, so the fact that I'm aware these are produced by NN is probably not the only explanation.
- mikepurvis 6y agoYeah, it sounds like in that case your criticism may be more about abstract art as a style than it is about whether a given piece was produced by a human or a machine.
- lokl 6y agoNot all abstract art. Some Kandinsky, for example, is more than decoration to me.
- jjk166 6y ago"Well you asked me to paint an authentic Guernica so of course I had to bomb Guernica"
- fareesh 6y agoThis isn't live/dynamically generated, but if it was, what would be a good way of architecting it in a basic implementation? Say you keep the WordPress site, do you then just send a request to some endpoint that is served by python which keeps the model in memory for quick responses?
- lostmsu 6y agoWhen I was doing AI lyrics, I just ensured that the same seed generates the same text. So server just pregenerated several thousand texts into a queue, which you drain from instantly upon a click to get random. The generated texts are then cached, and if not visited for a while - expire. But thanks to the ability to regenerate the same text from seed are still accessible from URL. https://github.com/losttech/BillionSongs https://github.com/losttech/BillionSongs
- wimpypistol 6y agoGood thinking. Yes, that is correct.
- boskonyc 6y agoVery few of these look like paintings
- tentakull 6y agoI'll never not hate purely procedurally generated art and art projects.
- e_tm_ 6y agoIt isn't abstract art if it is generated from a deep net. The emotion and intentional abstraction of imagery no longer exists. However, a deep net can absolutely generate more literal artworks, such as portraits, scenery, etc..
- runeb 6y agoAdd a pain brush plotter to this and it could get pretty interesting
- stevehiehn 6y agoWhere is the 'order now' button? I'm not even kidding, I would put some of these prints on my wall!
- ivalm 6y agoThey are all very low res. Not sure there is a networks out there producing a few hundred megapixels needed for a good large print.
- wimpypistol 6y agoThanks for the input! I'll add that functionality and let you know as soon as it's ready.
- valentinvieriu 6y agoCongratulations on the project! This looks very similar to my project: https://art42.net https://art42.net I've used the higher resolution model 1024, and I also chosen to generate the picture in advance. It's expensive to generate them realtime.
- wimpypistol 6y agoThank you. I love the clear, intelligent user interface of your site - it's given me a lot of inspiration for future projects. Keep in touch!
- bilater 6y agoSimilar to 9GANS: https://9gans.com/ https://9gans.com/
- MarkLowenstein 6y agoGorgeous! Would absolutely pay for most of these. Best thing though: this is the first software I've ever seen that advertises "in one click" yet really requires only ONE CLICK.
- ellis0n 6y agoCool things! I did a similar project and generate tons of art. Here is art samples https://www.instagram.com/likeplus.plus/ https://www.instagram.com/likeplus.plus/ Full HD samples https://imgur.com/a/XMnMi https://imgur.com/a/XMnMi Generated in real time low res or seconds for HD on iPad
- wimpypistol 6y agoThese are gorgeous! Great work.
- SergeAx 6y agoIt made me think about couple years old trend of style transfer using GAN: "make your selfie look like Van Gogh". Generating abstract painting may be reduced to transfering average style of several abstract painters onto random seed image. But then it should be a trivial task, even possible to do client-side, no GPU.
- destory-everyth 6y agoCan you put an thumbs up / down counter for each image and use the human preferences collected to refine the model further ?