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I've always pondered if code could dream up idiosyncratic styles of art. Instead of using 'training' material, it procedurally generates art using random noise
by spansoa 4y ago
I've always pondered if code could dream up idiosyncratic styles of art. Instead of using 'training' material, it procedurally generates art using random noise as the base input, and uses a different algorithm each time it generates art, instead of a predictable algorithm (to avoid everything looking the same). You could, in effect, generate serendipity on demand, and use algorithms to create algorithms, a very meta thing to do, but would be an interesting project to undertake.
- dtagames 4y agoIt won't work because the resonant part of art doesn't come from random noise. It comes from an inflection point on a particular emotional introspection or connection. When the viewer or listener shares this connection, art happens. Without this emotional exchange, art is lifeless and uninteresting. Interestingly, music works the same way. Random, unpitched noise sounds to us like wind or rain. In music synthesis, randomness has a use (like in DALL-E) but it is limited. What humans want hear to "get into" a song emotionally comes from specific arrangements of pitches - not random ones. The artist chooses them because they "feel" a certain way, an exclusively human concept. When the listener has the same emotional reaction, art succeeds. No DALL-E painting will ever achieve this because it has no feelings to begin with.