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I had a similar idea early last year and also dabbled with a checkerboard approach. Here a cat is made from 9 paintings of cats in the style of popular painter

by mg 3y ago

I had a similar idea early last year and also dabbled with a checkerboard approach. Here a cat is made from 9 paintings of cats in the style of popular painters: https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1521500594577584141 https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1521500594577584141 You might have to squint your eyes to see it. I made a few of them and then somehow lost interest.

hammock 3y ago
That's really cool. Can you do 3x3x3? As in, 9x9 with 81 1-cell cats, 9 9-cell cats and 1 81-cell cat?
- mg 3y ago
  That could be interesting. A recursive cat, so to say. The problem would be this: In the picture at hand, the big cat is rather simple. Just a portrait of a smiling cat. While the 9 smaller cats are doing all kinds of poses to adjust to the form of the big cat portrait. So the subcats are more complex than the main cat. When doing the recursive cat, it would be hard to make a subcat from 9 subsubcats because the subcat is already a complex image that is not as easy to recognise as the main cat.
  - rereasonable 3y ago
    This thread reminded me of this old gem: https://thesecatsdonotexist.com/ https://thesecatsdonotexist.com/ (warning: you may see some catspiders / r/Imsorryjon material!) Now what would be interesting is a "demixer" which allows you to locate the source image(s) from multiple interations of a given image. Like a reverse image search but for generative images. I suppose it would rely on artefact matching or some other kind of granular pattern matching, along with other more general methods (assuming the source material is actually available online in the first place).
rob74 3y ago
That looks more like a cat-aclysm to me TBH. Probably the model was overwhelmed by the conflicting requirements, so that neither the individual images nor the composite image are particularly good. But, as you wrote, maybe they will get better at this eventually...

by mg 3y ago

hammock 3y ago

That's really cool. Can you do 3x3x3? As in, 9x9 with 81 1-cell cats, 9 9-cell cats and 1 81-cell cat?

mg 3y ago
That could be interesting. A recursive cat, so to say. The problem would be this: In the picture at hand, the big cat is rather simple. Just a portrait of a smiling cat. While the 9 smaller cats are doing all kinds of poses to adjust to the form of the big cat portrait. So the subcats are more complex than the main cat. When doing the recursive cat, it would be hard to make a subcat from 9 subsubcats because the subcat is already a complex image that is not as easy to recognise as the main cat.
- rereasonable 3y ago
  This thread reminded me of this old gem: https://thesecatsdonotexist.com/ https://thesecatsdonotexist.com/ (warning: you may see some catspiders / r/Imsorryjon material!) Now what would be interesting is a "demixer" which allows you to locate the source image(s) from multiple interations of a given image. Like a reverse image search but for generative images. I suppose it would rely on artefact matching or some other kind of granular pattern matching, along with other more general methods (assuming the source material is actually available online in the first place).

rob74 3y ago

That looks more like a cat-aclysm to me TBH. Probably the model was overwhelmed by the conflicting requirements, so that neither the individual images nor the composite image are particularly good. But, as you wrote, maybe they will get better at this eventually...