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Art is quite subjective. So hard to say what is "garbage" and what isn't. I assume this comment will get downvoted due to that. That being said I do agree with
by aronowb14 5y ago
Art is quite subjective. So hard to say what is "garbage" and what isn't. I assume this comment will get downvoted due to that.
That being said I do agree with you :). After staring an GAN art for a year I find it is extremely "empty" and essentially all looks the same, with very similar visual artifacts that make them look bad.
I view style transfer and GAN art generally as "trippy artistic filters". I don't think it's more than that at the current state of the art. Even in images linked above me: they are cool, but do just seem to be trippy distortions of existing things. If you like that that's fine, but I don't think it's more than that.
Looking at ML as a type of artistic filter though is interesting: and does open up some interesting use cases. I created a project in college using style transfer filters to make a short film. I think it achieved an effect that would have been unachievable without the ML.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZ9-9tH_uE
- stemlord 5y agoI appreciate you adding a more technical description to aid my inital sentiment, and thanks for sharing your vid, was funny and you actually managed to harness style transfer filters to achieve a particular feeling, which I haven't seen so much
- corysama 5y agoWhat are paintings if they are not trippy distortions of existing things? ;) I've been having a lot of fun using GANs as what I think is a better form of style transfer. The default approach uses noise as the initializer. But, by specifying an initial image, you can get a result that is very similar to style transfer, but more scene-coherent. https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_of_me_by_various_artists/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o83bd0/portraits_... https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o7eosf/this_is_fi...