Mirror, Mirror

My love is a dog from Hell, Leonard Koscianski

Filippo Nesci

Near at hand, Greg Ponthus

Two Minute Papers - Deep Learning Program Learns to Paint

Short video from Károly Zsolnai-Fehér explains simply how neural network artistic style transfer works, including new improved research work on the subject:

Artificial neural networks were inspired by the human brain and simulate how neurons behave when they are shown a sensory input (e.g., images, sounds, etc). They are known to be excellent tools for image recognition, any many other problems beyond that - they also excel at weather predictions, breast cancer cell mitosis detection, brain image segmentation and toxicity prediction among many others. Deep learning means that we use an artificial neural network with multiple layers, making it even more powerful for more difficult tasks. This time they have been shown to be apt at reproducing the artistic style of many famous painters, such as Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso among many others. All the user needs to do is provide an input photograph and a target image from which the artistic style will be learned.

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Somewhere in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt, Germany an unknown street artist used a deceptively simple set of stencils to turn a street grate into an awesome optical illusion. What was a grate on a utility hatch is now a window through which light shines, casting shadows on the floor of a tiny room.

If you know who created this clever work of literal street art, please let us know.

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from The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)

Artist: Yoshitaka Amano

Capture the Sun, Andrew McIntosh

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