NN's have been able to represent fairly abstract art, e.g. http://i.imgur.com/HU66Vo7.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/HU66Vo7.png?1 They can also generate abstract im

NN's have been able to represent fairly abstract art, e.g. http://i.imgur.com/HU66Vo7.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/HU66Vo7.png?1 They can also generate abstract images when the images are optimized to be recognized by the NN: http://i.imgur.com/Mixk96V.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/Mixk96V.png?1 I think it's likely that cartoons contain a lot of meaning and symbols that is specific to human culture. Imagine a stick figure in the simplest case. It's not obvious that a circle and sticks should be a person. Same with a lot of other cartoon features that look nothing like reality.